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How many "average sized" MP3s, books, pictures, etc. can a 40 gig hard drive hold?

JetBlack69

JetBlack69

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Hi people. I'm doing an informative speech on hard drives and I was wondering if you people know how many mp3s, books, pictures or anything else can fit on a 40 gig hard drive? According to my math, a 40 gig hard drive can hold about 14,630 three minute mp3s at 128kbps. I'm looking for "A 40 gig hard drive can hold _blank_ many _blank_!" Thanks.
 
You seem to be able to calculate these things yourself, but oh well.

Did you know? A 40 gig hard drive can store 2 copies of God.
 
That's like asking how many watermelons you can fit in the back of your truck, it all depends on the size of the melons.

If you're talking about 320x240 8-bit images, you can fit a hell of a lot of pictures on a 40 gig drive.

If you have 40000x30000x32 bit color images, it will be a few less.

Viper GTS
 
It can hold 1 40GB divx movie. It can hold 2 20GB divx movies. it can hold 57 700mb Divx movies.

It can hold 1 40GB jpg file, it can hold 40 1GB jpg files, it can hold 400,000 100kb jpg files.

This is a stupid question. Do you understand division?
 
Well, at least I'm doing my math right. But I don't know how big an average picture is or an average book or an average essay is. I'm just looking for suggestions.
 


<< This is a stupid question. Do you understand division? >>



YES I UNDERSTAND DIVISION. but I don't know the "average" size of a good quality divix movie or things like that.
 
You would make the most impact by giving a single number, rather than subdividing the drive into many chunks of a numerically designated unit.

For example, a 40 gig drive will hold approximately 40,000 minutes (665 hours) (27.5 days) worth of mp3 music at 128kbps.

It will hold approximately 5000 minutes (83 hours) of DVD quality DivX video, assuming that a 700 Mb DivX movie holds 90 minutes of DVD quality video.
 


<< You would make the most impact by giving a single number, rather than subdividing the drive into many chunks of a numerically designated unit.

For example, a 40 gig drive will hold approximately 40,000 minutes (665 hours) (27.5 days) worth of mp3 music at 128kbps.

It will hold approximately 5000 minutes (83 hours) of DVD quality DivX video, assuming that a 700 Mb DivX movie holds 90 minutes of DVD quality video. >>



Thank you. That's the type of answer I'm looking for. I guess it took me a while to state the question correctly. 🙂
 


<< I guess it took me a while to state the question correctly. 🙂 >>



You never stated the question correctly. You're asking for average filesize, which is very difficult to measure in any meaningful way. You would have to average out the file sizes on the hard drives of thousands of people from all walks of life. That would be a very difficult problem logistically.

What I gave you is how many hours of multimedia data the hard drive could hold if you created a single file in a specific format at a specific bitrate to fill up the entire drive.

Depending on the intelligence of the audience, you can rephrase the results.

Rather than saying 40,000 minutes of 128kbps mp3 music, you could say "almost a month of near-CD quality music".

Rather than saying 5183 minutes of DivX (which is the number I actually got), you could say "3 and a half days of near-DVD quality video".

In order to do the same thing for text, you will have to figure out how many kilobytes of ASCII text contitutes a "page", which I'm really not interested in working out.
 


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<< I guess it took me a while to state the question correctly. 🙂 >>



You never stated the question correctly. You're asking for average filesize, which is very difficult to measure in any meaningful way. You would have to average out the file sizes on the hard drives of thousands of people from all walks of life. That would be a very difficult problem logistically.

What I gave you is how many hours of multimedia data the hard drive could hold if you created a single file in a specific format at a specific bitrate to fill up the entire drive.

Depending on the intelligence of the audience, you can rephrase the results.

Rather than saying 40,000 minutes of 128kbps mp3 music, you could say "almost a month of near-CD quality music".

Rather than saying 5183 minutes of DivX (which is the number I actually got), you could say "3 and a half days of near-DVD quality video".

In order to do the same thing for text, you will have to figure out how many kilobytes of ASCII text contitutes a "page", which I'm really not interested in working out. >>



OK. Thanks.
 
The average size of a jpg file on MY hartddrive is 214kb

The average size of an avi file on MY harddrive is 93mb

The average size of a mp3 on MY harddrive is 2.7mb

The average size of a psd on MY hard drive is 3.9mb



Your mileage may vary, as there's about a billion different ways to make any of these types of files.
 


<< The Holy Bible is about 4.22MB, if you're into that kind of thing. >>



I have the KJV version in HTML. It's around 1.5MB zipped. That means over 26000 Holy Bibles to read on a 40GB HDD :Q
 
Cool. Thanks for the info everybody. I got enough information. 😀

EDIT: ssanches, I should put your sig in my speech. 😉😛
 


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<< The Holy Bible is about 4.22MB, if you're into that kind of thing. >>



I have the KJV version in HTML. It's around 1.5MB zipped. That means over 26000 Holy Bibles to read on a 40GB HDD :Q >>



If you really want to make an impact.. use this example and drop 26,000 Bibles in the room to illustrate the fact 😉

-Erik
 


<< If you really want to make an impact.. use this example and drop 26,000 Bibles in the room to illustrate the fact 😉

-Erik >>



I guess I should go to a couple of hotels and "borrow" a few from them. 😉
 


<< Cool. Thanks for the info everybody. I got enough information. 😀

EDIT: ssanches, I should put your sig in my speech. 😉😛 >>



Hey! Don't forget to pay me the royalty! 😉
 
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