Western Digital offers $30 back-up software for free

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  • zavlakas
    Member
    Member
    • Nov 2004
    • 94

    Western Digital offers $30 back-up software for free

    Western Digital will provide free backup software to around 1 million customers as part of a class action settlement relating to how the company marketed the size of its hard drives. Western Digita…


  • jm1647
    An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
    • Apr 2005
    • 3661

    #2
    Talk about an ambulance chasing attorney

    San Francisco lawyers Adam Gutride and Seth Safier will receive attorneys’ fees of up to $485,000 and expenses up to $15,000 for their work in the case, pending approval of the proposal. The pair has also filed a similar lawsuit against Seagate Technology.

    Orin Safier the person who is the plaintiff in this class action suit has to be a relative

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    • vw56german
      Digital Video Expert
      Digital Video Expert
      • Jun 2005
      • 640

      #3
      hmmm, so this explains my 120,030,994,432 byte drive being 111Gb and not actually 120Gb as the box stated. But really, what kind of half a$$ed solution is giving me "back up" software? Between windows, Nero, and other freeware, dont we all have back ups covered?

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      • alan1476
        Junior Member
        Junior Member
        • Jun 2006
        • 37

        #4
        I just bought a WD250gigHD and it was only 232gig after format. Got it on Newegg for 79.00 after 10.00 rebate, love the drive, 16mbs of cache, I use as a back up drive for my RaptorX, works great.
        AMD OPTERON 185 Dual Core 2.6MHz/
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        • MikeyBK
          Digital Video Maniac
          • Feb 2006
          • 1131

          #5

          Good to see you here Alan >
          MBK

          Antec 900 ATX Mid Tower
          Antec True Power Trio 650W PSU
          ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel Motherboard
          Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU (Overclocking @ 2.9GHz)
          XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR3 Video Card
          Patriot eXtreme Performance (2 x 1GB) DDR2 SDRAM
          Seagate Barracuda(Perpendicular Recording) 320GB SATA 3.0Gb

          *SAMSUNG 18X LightScribe SATA SH-S183L DVD±R
          *Sony DRU-810A IDE DVD±R
          *BenQ LS DW1655 IDE DVD±R

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