How many pages of text will fit into one megabyte of storage?

Answer 1

Answer1. Depending on the format, up to several hundred thousand, possibly even a million or more. Text is easy to store, compared to images, music, and software

(second chronological answer dropped to bottom due to relevance)

3. A more exact answer may be found using some math:

First we'll assume that we're using 8.5x11 paper and the font Lucida Console size 10, which is a fixed font used by the latest Microsoft Notepad application. Second, we'll assume that the text is encoded using 8-bit encoding. This encoding is actually now antiquated, but it works much better for the math. New encoding methods use variable-bit encoding, so a page of one letter might be different from a page of another letter. The reason for the fixed font is that a page of i's will always be smaller than a page of W's unless the i takes the same space as W. With the previous conditions, one letter size page with 0" margins and standard spacing will have 79 lines of 102 characters each, giving 8058 characters per page.

On with the math:

8058 characters/page

8 bits per character

8 bits per byte

8058 bytes/page

1 KB = 1024 B

1 MB = 1024 KB = 1048576 B

1 GB = 1024 MB = 1048576 KB = 1073741824 B

Divide 1073741824 by 8058, and you find that one gigabyte can hold a raw

133251 Full Pages and 5266 Characters (or about 65% of another page). Note that the math gives the "raw" amount of text, which does not include any additional file information.

Hope that's definitive enough for you.

2. Well whoever wrote that last thing [Answer 1] really doesn't know what hes talking about,

if you want a lot of pages, with less storage, go find someone that will host your pictures, videos and files then just use the HTML, that way you save a lot of memory,

There are a lot of websites that host files like Mediafire and Filefront,

there is also some websites that host videos like YouTube,

I knew a few hosting services that host pictures, but I forgot most of them,

I think that ImageShack hosts them.

Anyways, once you upload them into any of those hosting services, you can copy/paste the HTML if the page supports HTML format.

This is how much space you will save:

100Mb video will be

15KB in your website if you use HTML

You will save a lot

A reply to answer 2:

The first response was a better answer to the question than the second response. The question was "how many pages of text can be stored in a gigabyte", not how many videos or pictures can be stored on a remote server.

If you have a 1GB thumb drive and zipped text pages, that would push the number up by a factor of 4 or more providing the documents were plain text.

Answer 2

at 5,000 letters per page you could fit 200 pages, uncompressed

if it's compressed you're looking at 1,000 pages at 20% compression ratio

Estimated more than 50 pages as a word document, just text, with formatting

Answer 3

Approximately the same number of type written pages that will fit in the bed of a Ford F150 pickup.

Answer 4

how many pages of text can be stored on a gigabite

Answer 5

40