OT: Heads up if you purchased a WD hard drive

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Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers
to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives
stored less material than promised _ a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's
different standards for sizing up digital data.

Under the settlement announced Tuesday, Western Digital will give away
software designed to back up and recover computer files to anyone who bought
one of the company's disk drives from March 22, 2001, through Feb. 15 of
this year.

To get the software, the 1 million eligible consumers must register their
claims before July 16 at http://www.wdc.com/settlement.

The settlement, approved earlier this month by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernard
Zimmerman in San Francisco, pegs the software's retail value at $30 per
copy. Consumers paid an average of $150 for the hard drives covered in the
suit.

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Don't know if it is worth the effort but I may give it a go.


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