Monday, April 14, 2014
GB is gigabyte, 1,000,000,000 bytes.
TB is terabyte, 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.
500 GB = 0.5 TB.
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Those numbers mean nothing to many. Let’s measure in a real world sense.
A CD is 700 MB.
A DVD is 4.7 GB.
Depending on the sizes of the photos, one CD can hole up 150 to 1000 photos , and 1GB holds 300-1500 photos.
1TB can save 250- 1495 full length DVD movies, based on quality of the movies.
Today, the storage of a hard drive in a computer is from 500GB to 1TB.
Common memory cards for a camera or smartphone are from16 GB to 64GB.
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Most important, unless you are a photo lovers or a movie collector, there is no way to fill up a hard drive in a computer today.
Truth is, users might not need a big hard drive in a computer or smartphone, if they use the Cloud wisely.
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