If you bought a Seagate hard drive between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2006, pay attention! Seagate has settled a lawsuit in which they were accused of misleading consumers by overstating the capacity of their hard drives by approximately 7%. This is because Seagate defined 1 GB as 1 billion bytes rather than 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is the way operating systems report gigabytes. If you bought a Seagate hard drive within the 5 year period, you are eligible to receive a cash refund or free backup and recovery software.
