What is the average size in GB for the following types of files, when buying an external hard drive?
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MP3: 1-6 Meg \n\n1 gig can hold about 300 songs\n\nthere are a couple different formats that movies are saved to the computers as.\n\nMpeg: 450 - 3000 megs\nDivx: 200 -1200 megs\nMP4: 200 - 1200 megs\nmov 300 - 900 megs\n\n1 gig can hold 1 - 2 movies
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500 Gig is stated using 1000 MB to a gigabyte.  The computer uses 1024 MB to a Gig.  so you lose a bit in the translation.  \n\n24*500= 12,000 MB lost to translation.  or, 11.71GB\n\nalso, a certain % of sectors will be defective on every hard disk.  its normal and every drive will not rate as high as stated on the box.  check with your manufacturer to determine whether or not your within acceptable limits of defect.
231641
There's nothing wrong with your drive or computer. The discrepancy you're seeing occurs because Windows (and nearly all other operating systems too) calculates hard drive sizes in a different manner than do drive manufacturers. One uses binary and the other uses decimal. Rather than writing it all out, read this below:\n\n""Marketing" capacity versus true capacity\n\nHard drive manufacturers often use the metric definition of the prefixes "giga" and "mega", whilst nearly all operating system utilities report capacities using binary definitions for the prefixes. This is largely for historical reasons, since when storage capacities started to exceed thousands of bytes, there were no standard binary prefixes. The IEC only standardized binary prefixes in 1999, so 210 (1024) bytes was called a kilobyte because 1024 is "close enough" to the metric prefix kilo, which is defined as 103 or 1000. This trend became habit and continued to be applied to the prefixes "mega," "giga," and even "tera." Obviously the discrepancy becomes much more noticeable in reported capacities in the multiple gigabyte range, and users will often notice that the volume capacity reported by their OS is significantly less than that advertised by the hard drive manufacturer. For example, a drive advertised as 200 GB can be expected to store close to 200 x 109, or 200 billion, bytes. This uses the proper SI definition of "giga," 109 and can be considered as an approximation of a gibibyte. Since utilities provided by the operating system probably define a gigabyte as 230, or 1073741824, bytes, the reported capacity of the drive will be closer to 186.26 GB (actually, GiB), a difference of well over 7 percent. For this very reason, many utilities that report capacity have begun to use the aforementioned IEC standard binary prefixes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) since their definitions are unambiguous.\n\nAnother side point is that many people mistakenly attribute the discrepancy in reported and advertised capacities to reserved space used for file system and partition accounting information. However, for large (several GiB) filesystems, this data rarely occupies more than several MiB, and therefore cannot possibly account for the apparent "loss" of tens of GBs."\n\n\nIf you want to read the whole article, see here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drives
410062
20... thats 2^20...1048576 bytes...some companies say 1,000,000 bytes to make their hardrives/flash memory seem bigger but 1048576 or 2^20 is technically the most accurate answer...
939348
id recommend kepping it and buying an external hard drive like myself...its easy and portable depending on what model u get!
268218
No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
983180
No one knows for certain but many scientists estimate between 1 and 1000 Terabytes, so a lot more than a Gb.
953080
Using a pen/thumb drive is the most efficient way. They some in different capacities. You should get the one with the largest capacity if you plan to move huge files.\n\nNote: This suggestion is for data files only. You can never move O/S or system files or even programs.
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1 GB = 1024 MB\nFor everything computer related we count with base 2 numbers and for file sizes follow something similar to a metric measurement system. For this reason everysize is 1000 units more than the previous one, but since 1000 is not an even multiple or 2 (our base system) we are using 2^10 or 1024 the closest unit.
1182656
You can get like a 200gig external hard drive for like 80bucks.
630456
I would use an external USB drive (flash or hard drive depending on size of files).
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http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
952661
You will run out of room in about 2 years. Get a 120G or higher now. \n\nI have over 2500 MP3's and tons of programs on my 120G, and it's just over half full.\n\nDon't forget to make frequent backup's of all your stuff. Hard drives do crash. \n\nI've created a folder just for stuff I want to keep. Every month my stuff (Outlook info, address book, etc.) gets backed-up to this folder. Every six months I burn this folder to several DVD-RW's. I use RW's so I can rotate them.
497509
you can easy calculate from Tera to Giga with multiply by 1024\n\nso 20 TB gives 20*1024 GB which gives 20480 GB
681762
I would say it should at least be 512Mb, but prefer 1Gb. And hard drive would be 120GB at least, and preferable 200GB
875147
actualy if u refere to a usb storage device like an usb rack for hdd the limit should be 2048 Gb.\n As for usb devices like flash memory the size it's "64Gb" http://www.kanguru.com/flashdrive_max.html but the price it's  .l.o.l....
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Why 20 GB external hardrive?\nYou can buy a more capacity Internal hard disk and use an external enclosure to make it as a external drive. It would be a cheaper option. \nI recently bought a 250 GB internal hard disk with 7200 rpm and 16 MB buffer etc.. and a external USB 2.0 enclosure with a power source + Fan.. Total cost was around $90.00 \nYou could find better deals than this, i bet..