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==== Early cases ==== Early cases (2004β2007) were settled prior to any court ruling with the manufacturers admitting no wrongdoing but agreeing to clarify the storage capacity of their products on the consumer packaging. Accordingly, many flash memory and hard disk manufacturers have disclosures on their packaging and web sites clarifying the formatted capacity of the devices or defining MB as 1 million bytes and 1 GB as 1 billion bytes.<ref name="wdc2007" /><ref name="flash2016" /><ref name="sand2013" /><ref name="sd-cap-disclaimer" />
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