SanDisk Exits Suit Over Alleged Deceptive Flash Drive Storage

SanDisk LLC won dismissal, for now, of a proposed class suit alleging it fools consumers into thinking its flash drives have more storage capacity than they really do.

The product labeling precludes John Dinan’s deception claims because it discloses exactly how many bytes of storage the flash drives have, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said.

Dinan alleged SanDisk advertises the gigabyte capacity of its flash drives according to the decimal counting system. But he alleged consumers commonly understand digital storage to be measured using the binary system, which is how computers display file sizes and ...