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1 page of text with no graphics, is less than 2Kb. So 1MB can hold 500 pages of text; 1GB can hold 50,000 pages. 1TB can hold 50 million. 10TB can thus hold 5
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
1 page of text with no graphics, is less than 2Kb. So 1MB can hold 500 pages of text; 1GB can hold 50,000 pages. 1TB can hold 50 million.
10TB can thus hold 500 million.
Of course, graphics, audio, video files etc. can severely increase the size.
- alva 10y agoI agree that 10TB can hold at least 500m simple documents. Minor quibble (although bit groggy so correct me if I am wrong), but surely if 1MB holds 500, 1GB holds 500,000, 1TB 500,000,000 so 10TB holds 5 billion. I just find it unlikely that 500m (or even 5b) of normal documents detailing operations exist at a single organisation, even with attached multimedia. Certainly possible, but seems off? Databases seem like the more likely chunk of the haul. Not suggestion anything nefarious going on, just noting it is an odd way to describe the likely data.
- nickff 10y agoHillary Clinton managed to generate 60k e-mail records over 6 years; assuming a period of 8 years, and a similar rate of e-mail generation, it would only take 6250 employees to generate 500M e-mails. The NSA is estimated to have 30k-40k employees (and many contractors).
- brassic 10y ago> 1MB can hold 500 pages of text; 1GB can hold 50,000 pages You lost a factor of ten. 500 times 1000 is 500,000 so 1GB can hold 500,000 pages. 1TB can hold 500 million.