is this a sales tactic from hard drive manufacturers?
so i bought a seagate free agent go a year or two ago that was 50gb, now everything was fine until it failed, then I had to do some data recovery and repairs to get it back into functioning mode.
The thing is, on the back of the usb drive, where the serial number is, it says 320gb, and after it was completely wiped using seagate’s tools it is now reading about 300gb on my computer.
Did they intentionally sell me a 320gb with limitations to make it only 50gb? in order to sell their “320′s” at a higher price?
It would make sense if they could only run out one product and then label them differently so they could sell the same thing at a higher price.
What do you think?
February 8th, 2012 at 1:24 am
No there must of been a problem with the formatting on your drive. They have not sold 50GB external HDDs in about four years.
February 8th, 2012 at 1:35 am
They give you a new usb drive and the new usb driver is large than the original one!
February 8th, 2012 at 1:47 am
Nothing is wrong with it. Microsoft has a different definition of MB/GB/TB than the hard drive manufacturers do. For example a hard drive may have 250,056,700,000 bytes on it. You’d think that would make it 250 GB. But in practical use windows/OSX/whatever OS you use will see that same HDD as about 232 GB. It’s just an matter of counting the same number of bytes differently.