Hard Drive size scam
So I bought Seagate FreeAgent Pro "740GB" the other day to back up all my photo and other data for $199.95 at Costco. It was pretty good deal, I thought, for 740GB, and I have had a good experience with all Seagate drive, so I didn’t think twice selecting its product.
Everything was easy to install except for Autobackup software they supplied. Since I wasn’t planning on using it, I didn’t care much. After backing up all my photo, I wanted to check how much space left.
Wait a minute..
698GB??? This is a marketing scam/bullshit. How can people in right mind say 750,153,728,000 bytes to 750GB??? Hello? I really hate this. 1000 = 1K does not work with bytes, and marketing people might think everyone using this piece of hardware are computer illiterate.
Other than this, I am pretty happy with the hard drive.


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