How much can a memory stick hold?

[JonnyBoy12]

I know this sounds like the old question "How long is a piece of string", but was just wondering how many pages of A4 text a memory stick could hold. As some of you know I write poems in my spare time, and was wondering how many of them it could hold. Mine are the 4GB ones, and I know you can get up to 8 and even 16GB size sticks.

How much could a 1.5TB external memory hold as well?

www.maplin.co.uk

[Stephen_G]

Usually less than advertised, because they have all sorts of information pre-installed (mine has a Quick Start Guide).

Mine has a capacity of 4GB and is showing

5,718,016 bytes (5.45 MB) used
4,112,351,232 bytes (3.82 GB) free space
4,118,069,248 bytes (3.83 GB) capacity

A 1.5 TB drive is 1,572,864 MB - one or two A4 pages then!!!!!

[Ethel]

If the page is standard text of 84 characters per line and 24 lines you have 1920 characters.

1 character is roughly equivalent to 1 byte and 1 gigabyte has 1,073,741,824 bytes

Divide a gigabyte by the number of characters per page:
1,073,741,824 / 1920 = 559240.53 pages

Your 4gb stick can hold 2,236 962.12 pages if there is nothing else on the stick.

[legend.isgod]

i got an email from

mymemory.com

offering me a sandisk 16gb flashdrive for 16 quid which i think included postage.


if thats any help?

btw cant you compress documents so they take up less memory ?

ask a techy i found this


http://www.sharewareconnection.com/titles/comp ress-files.htm


maybe they can explain .
it appears to compress text documents to take less space but when you open them theyre the same as they were originally.

i think

[ChuckFickens]

Ethel has given the most comprehensive answer, and legend is correct, you can compress text documents so they take less space.

However..... even on a 4Gb drive without compressing you could probably be writing poems from permanently for several years before you'll get anywhere close to filling it up.

Also what nobody has mentioned is what format your saving them in?

For example, I have just created 3 pages of text, I then saved it as a word document and the file size is 38kb, the exact same text put into notepad and saved as a text document is 6kb in size

So a 4gb memory stick would hold approx 110000 3 page documents if they are saved as word ducuments. if you saved them as text documents then the same stick would hold about 699000 3 page ducuments.

[ACtheTROLL]

another answer oh jonny boy is to question your motives

if it's just interest in the answers - they are indeed interesting

if it's to actually use a memory stick to save your poems ....
DON't

memory sticks are unreliable ... but worse ... they currently have a shelf life of about seven years ... after that they start to forget

so they are best suited to short term storage ... or to shift files you use often

a far more betterer question is what's the best medium to use for archiving the poems wot you writ

and the answer would be a dvd or CD