How many pictures and movies can 500gb external hard drive hold?

Answer 1

A 500GB hard drive can hold 500GB of data (although in reality slightly less is available for use as the formatting of the disc uses some space). This equates to around 800 albums (in mp3 format), or 150 movies, or 10,000 photographs or any combination of such files.

Answer 2

A 500MB external hard drive can hold 500MB of data before formatting. The media that you wish to store on this hard drive will greatly affect its usefulness to you - I'll give you a few examples in a bit. A single MB is one million bytes, although occasionally memory manufacturers will use the closest binary equivalent, which in your case would mean you have 524,288,000 bytes instead of the simpler 500,000,000. Pure text documents often use single bytes or only a few bytes for each character, depending on what level of formatting is done. Other text editors than notepad and its equivalents will use up to 60KB for each single-page document. You will be unlikely to run out of space if storing text files is your prerogative. Video files take up 500MB per hour at the very least (DVD quality is considerably more) and pictures can take as little as a few thousand bytes each to a million bytes, or more if you're storing high color precision and many pixel photographs.

Answer 3

More pictures than you could imagine. 500gb is 500,000 mb. A picture is about 1 mb. I would say average is .5-2mb. Depends on quality.

Songs are about 4mb each. like 1mb per minute. A movie can be anywhere from .5-1gb easily.

Answer 4

This all depends on your desire of backing up. 250gb is a good medium for the average to above average user. If your intent for an external if for backups as well as additional media, then aim for 500gb or higher. It's always better to have more, than to have less.

Answer 5

It is completely dependant upon the size of the documents. Thousands of small documents, or maybe only hundreds if they are very large. No way to know the actual number.

Answer 6

500 GB is 500 X 2^30 bytes (approximately 500 billion)

Answer 7

500gb's are in a 500gb hard-drive.

Answer 8

Around half of 1 gigabit.

Answer 9

This would be 536870912000 bytes.

Answer 10

500 billion billion