LaCie 400 gig external HD isnt 400 gig!

[solvs]

LaCie employee I take it?

You are kidding right? No, I don't work for any hard drive manufacturer. If you must know, I work in IT for a financial company here in Tacoma, WA. I just read the box on the last hard drive I bought, not that I didn't know about this already. Sorry you are upset, but you still aren't going to get any sympathy here.

And you might want to quit now, because at this point you're just sounding paranoid.

 

[acedickson]

That is a lame example. Bud dont say on their packaging that they can hook you up with twins do they? LaCie clearly call this a 400 gig HD. AND ITS NOT. Imagine if i'd gone for the 1TB one? Imagine how much space I would have lost? 26 gig is serious space. I bought this HD to back up my cd collection and the less space I have the less I can store and ultimately price per cd becomes more for this.

Wonder where I stand legally on this??

They've surely got a disclaimer so you have no recourse. Any HDD you buy will be less than stated on the box because of formatting. You won't buy any HDD and have the same amount of space once formatted. It's just the ay things work.

You can always return it.

 

[risc]

I just received my drive and the size is somewhat smaller than what I ordered.

Many of the vendors of storage products identify their drive models and capacities by using the same model number and capacity as the original manufacturer of the drive mechanism. However, these model numbers only reflect a hard drive's approximate capacity. Vendors may round down to the nearest "gigabyte" multiple, or hundreds of megabytes.

Another reason your drive's actual capacity may differ from its nomenclature is that hard drive manufacturers use a slightly different yardstick of measurement than your computer does:

The hardware industry measures disk capacity as 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes.
Computers calculate disk drive capacity as 1GB=1,073,741,824 bytes.

If you take your hard drive size and divide it by 1074 (rounding up) you will get the approx. size in Gigabytes available on the computer.

Additionally, some of the hard drive's capacity is used with formatting and driver data. This includes such essentials as the partition map, the desktop files, the drivers, and directory information.

Information on measurements can be found at: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gigabyte.html

http://www.lacie.com/support/faq/index.htm --- FAQ Item #10125

 

[JW8725]

You are kidding right? No, I don't work for any hard drive manufacturer. If you must know, I work in IT for a financial company here in Tacoma, WA. I just read the box on the last hard drive I bought, not that I didn't know about this already. Sorry you are upset, but you still aren't going to get any sympathy here.

And you might want to quit now, because at this point you're just sounding paranoid.

You clearly have nothing to say to stop talking bubbles.

 

[edesignuk]

I think we're done here.