How long is a terabyte of music

Let me know your thoughts. About Kelly Brown. He writes about IT and business topics that keep him up at night. I have 2, movies in p some are in 4k but not many and TV shows ranging from pp. Of those 2, movies, how many of them did you watch in the last year? Can you just store most of them on a handful of external hard drives and have an online catalog of each drive and plug them in as needed?

In the old days 15 years ago. And photos. People used to take 1 or 2 good photos at an event like a picnic. Now they take 20 — But instead of deciding which ones to keep, they keep them all.

Photos have become the boring home videos of the 80ss. How many events will someone care about years in the future. I have maybe 1, photos from when i was born to age Someone who turns 18 in will probably have over , Even at 5 seconds a picture, it will take someone 8hrs a day, 17 days just to look at all of them. The value of the pics will drop and become something that is always hauled around, but rarely looked at. Matt- so true. But, unlike some who may just keep them all, I am constantly deleting most of them except the best ones.

And unfortunately, storage technology is getting beyond my understanding. I know there are others, but who has time to watch them all, or the increasing money it takes to pay monthly subscriptions for ea h one? Anyway it makes me glad that I have my own little video library of all my faves. Sorry, Kelly! Bit look how fast things change in this field! I think about cloud storage like the physical storage units that dot the landscape of America.

This blog post was mentioned in the international press this morning and picked up by Yahoo News:. Who would have thought. Thanks everyone for keeping this conversation lively! My question for you, Matt. How many hours of TV do you watch per year? Just 3 hours a day is equal to 2 movies a day. Try finding those on any streaming service. And netflix? Have you seen their selection? This grandma is a scary movie buff and netflix has very little of those. In this world of immediate gratification, the one pleasure I do demand is the movie I want when I want to watch it.

My collection allows me that pleasure. Sam, 1TB is a joke for a movie buff. Consider that watching only 2 movies a day is movies. I do that easily.

I have a considerable collection of photos 20k or so and and growing in music library , my problem is that i have dvds or so that i purchased most of which I wish to save, I spent alot of time and money over protecting these disc dvd changer pioneer and would like to preserve, I keep researching media servers for my self, but if i was going to travel cant really take with me, and if i was to convert them all digital and throw dvds away, would like to have a multiple bay type storage and a cloud option…..

Hello Marlon, Thanks for reading our blog. They are meant to be a personal cloud so that you can access your data, photos, music or movies anywhere. The mirroring is important to save your data in the event of a disaster or drive failure. Two things. Yes, the Microsoft and other models do make components seem cheap or free because of bundling. If you try to fill it with documents and photos and music and videos just because it is available then it will most likely be of less value to you your second point.

When you have one of something then it is valuable but when you have 20,, of something then it loses its luster. Good question! The simple but frustrating answer is: it depends. In my blog example, approximately 86 pages of Word document constitutes one megabyte. That would be a short book but there is extra formatting in Word that takes up even more bytes beyond just the plain characters.

If you have 50 lines of 50 characters each per page then each page would represent bytes which means that a page novel would equal 1 megabyte. In a published book there will be some formatting involved because of fonts and other characters so you would be lucky to get a to page book in a megabyte.

So, the answer to your question is one. Unless you watch p, p and the upcoming 4k videos will eat a TB away. Okay, no human can read that much, but what if you were responsible for reviewing and determining what is important in 1 terabyte of data storage, where some is video, some is documents, some is audio recordings?

Such is the dilemma facing criminal defense attorneys these days in some federal cases. The government dumps that much discovery, and more, on the defendant and his counsel.

Then the prosecutors produce at trial just that carefully selected evidence which they think will help them convince a jury to convict the defendant. So, the defendant and defense counsel cannot anticipate and prepare for what is actually produced. Data overload is just one of the prosecution techniques deliberately used by prosecutors to destroy any chance of a fair trial. There oughta be a law — for example: cases where the prosecutor produces more than the equivalent of , pages of discovery materials, should be dismissed for violating the due process right of the defendant to get a fair trial.

Paul: Wow, I never knew about that. Thanks for sharing. Paul: after reflecting on your post again, I just realized that once computers become intelligent enough, they could sift through those mountains of data quickly and extract the needed pertinent information.

So perhaps soon, humans will be much more dependent on computers than we already are—or at least, those humans in trouble with the law! Interesting take on the volumes of data that the attorneys and prosecutors not to mention defendants. The more serious the crime, the more volumes of data including references and copies of other cases!

I have witnessed something very interesting prior to computers being involved and that is watching one person sue another claiming they should receive more money for child support. The step-mother had convinced the father from the very beginning of the the divorce to keep a physical calendar and mark the days the boys were in his care. Each year, the calendar gets taken down from the wall and placed in a safe place. Sure enough, the mother sues the father and the step-mom reminds father of the calendars.

Father takes calendars to court. There are some judges that believes no one produces reams of data that is junk which is why many of the world corporations get away with polluting or commandeering natural resources away from the public trust. The consumer or victim oftentimes do not have the resources or the ability to provide , pages of research study where , pages are filled with fluff.

You are so right of the prosecutors tactics. What size flash drive I might to need to store perhaps , songs only? Thanks IH. In either calculation, you would need storage equaling about gigabytes. I just did it quickly in my head, but I think the OP was off by nearly an order of magnitude. I just was doing this out of curiosity and for possible future reference.

Or did I miss something? OK I did miss something. But according to your assumptions a CD holds songs or about 10 record albums! So, do I have it correct? And if so, when does anyone ever find the time to listen to , songs? Even if they were 3 minute pop songs that would take almost a year listening 24 hours a day, just to listen to all of them once.

When would someone find time to eat, much less time to make silly responses to IT blogs? Mbps Megabits per second.

A unit of measurement used to indicate download and upload speeds. Upload speeds. Transfer data from your home for activities like video calls, uploading large files, working on online documents and live gaming. Get the latest internet, streaming, wireless, TV and home security news directly to your inbox.

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Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for internet news and promos. Sign me up By subscribing, you agree to receive Allconnect newsletter and promotional emails. Thanks for subscribing! Thanks for signing up. This article answers the question and shows how to upgrade to a solid-state drive. If you want to know how much photos, music, or videos a 1TB hard drive can hold, this post may help you have a rough idea of 1TB storage. Although the number in the chart may vary depending on variants like resolution, pixels, audio quality, etc.

Some people may ask "Is 1tb enough storage for gaming? If you don't want to delete any games, 1TB is not enough for you. Maybe you are using the memory card to store your favorite music and songs on your device. You might wonder how many songs 1TB memory card or any other storage device can actually hold?

The average size of any 4K movies x is approximately GB, so you can say you can store up to 10 4K movies on 1TB storage drive. Average file size of p video is around 2. Average p video size is GB, so we can say you can store around movies of p resolution on 1TB.

If we talk about document files maybe its word file or any other document type. Want to buy a 1TB storage device?