Technology

[bundoran]

Could anyone tell me how long in hours/mins a 1.94gb usb stick would run for? Many thanks in anticipation.

[woofgang]

movie? music? what?

[boxtops]

I don't know what you mean - a gigabyte is volume, not time?

[Zacs-Master]

Run what?

[bundoran]

Sorry. Time roughly

[Zacs-Master]

Your question makes no sense, even with your 'clarification'. Maybe you should start with whatever is stored on the stick.

[Yorky Lass]

Not sure what you mean. I've looked at the films I have on my laptop and if you mean a film I'd say roughly 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

[Mattk]

The question is unanswerable as it all depends on the quality of the files being used e.g. lesser quality will be smaller therefore allowing more files and longer run time.

[Buenchico]

The simple (although unhelpful) answer to your question is "No, we can't tell you". That's because we don't know what type of files you're planning on putting onto the memory stick (audio? video?) and what level of compression will have been used in compiling those files.

However a 2Gb memory stick (which is obviously what you've got) will typically hold around 500 3-minute MP3 tracks (when recorded at the level of compression normally used for MP3 downloads), so that's around 1500 minutes (or about 25 hours) of playing time.

Alternatively a 1½ hour movie download (in high definition, at commonly used compression ratios) might be around 1.7Gb, which would nearly fill the capacity of your memory stick. (So you'd only be able to get just over 1½ hours playing time if you could fill the whole of the available memory).

[bundoran]

Many thanks yorky lass that's all i wanted to know.to all the rest sorry about the confusion.