How many GB would one file cabinet hold?

PohTayToez · 06-20-2007, 06:49 AM

So, this is an instant message convo me and a friend just had, thought I'd share it with you all:

Quote:

[11:12] My Friend: I need to slow down
[11:12] Me: O_o
[11:13] My Friend: I've just used 30 gig's of storage space on music
[11:13] Me: Meh, that's what you have me for.
[11:14] My Friend: YES!! I can delete my 30 gigs and make you sing me the song I want to hear?
[11:14] Me: Yes. Or I can supply you with all of your storage needs.
[11:14] My Friend: like a filing cabinet?
[11:15] Me: Yes
[11:15] Me: You can print off all of your data in binary and save in it a cabinet
[11:16] My Friend: weak
[11:16] My Friend: how much does that hold?
[11:16] Me: Does what?
[11:16] Me: A cabinet?
[11:16] My Friend: fo sho
[11:16] My Friend: is there like 60 gigs?
[11:16] Me: Lemme calculate
[11:17] My Friend: are you serious?
[11:17] Me: Yes
[11:17] My Friend: do it.
[11:18] Me: Well, we can say that the average song is 4MB
[11:18] My Friend: agreed
[11:18] My Friend: unless it's a Skillet song..cause their like 7, 8MB
[11:19] Me: 4MB = 33554432 bits
[11:20] Me: One bit would be a 1 or 0
[11:20] My Friend: DUDE
[11:20] My Friend: I just finished my 30.5 GB file of 277 hip hop albums
[11:20] Me: One printed page hold approx 6460 characters
[11:22] Me: So one song would take 5194 pages
[11:22] My Friend: so..for time's sake..we're looking at about a .4 gig file cabinet
[11:23] Me: Doubtful
[11:24] Me: Average paper is 24lb/ream or .0048" per sheet
[11:26] Me: So, we're looking at about 25" of space needed for one song
[11:27] Me: Looking at my file cabinet of average thickness, I would say that one drawer is about 18" deep
[11:28] Me: And the average file cabinet has 4 drawers
[11:28] Me: So we're talking 72" of space
[11:29] Me: Or 2.89 songs per cabinet
[11:29] Me: So one cabinet holds about 11.55MB of space
[11:30] My Friend: lol, holy ****
[11:30] Me: Or, about .01128GB
[11:30] Me: Satisfied?
[11:31] My Friend: what if I wanted 30 seconds of the songs
[11:32] Me: Well, you'd have to put in some tabs
[11:32] Me: that way you could just flip to your favorite part of the song
[11:33] My Friend: good call

Rough and dirty calculations, but I think I got them all right.

By the way, this is supposed to be humorous. That means no hate'n.

refresher · 06-20-2007, 07:19 AM

You have too much time on your hands. But interesting nonetheless.

Emperor_nero · 06-20-2007, 07:46 AM

That is very good.

And very funny!

Nice work thank you, found it very interesting.

Tuffie · 06-20-2007, 08:08 AM

Haha I put "So one cabinet holds about 11.55MB of space" into my sig.

Kent.

INTELCRAZY · 06-20-2007, 08:18 AM

Hmm...Another way to show my clients the efficiency of UPGRADED computers

Nice dude

Tuffie · 06-20-2007, 08:48 AM

ROFL, is funny.

Kent.

Platinum · 06-20-2007, 09:44 PM

hahahaha, thats great. but seriously dude, take up another hobby, you have a lot of free time.

Impulse666 · 06-21-2007, 01:46 AM

wow. just wow.

**Cromewell** · 06-21-2007, 11:39 AM

What if you used a smaller text size and a condensed font?

PohTayToez · 06-21-2007, 06:07 PM

Well then it would be hard to read and that wouldn't be any good. No one wants to squint their eyes while listening to music.

06-20-2007, 07:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
refresher Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 127	You have too much time on your hands. But interesting nonetheless. __________________ Laptop Desktop Intel Core 2 Duo T7600G (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB) Intel P4 HT 3.0 Ghz 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display 19 Inch LCD 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM 1GB 400MHZ 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX 256MB ATI X700 PRO 80GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) 250GB HD 24X Combo CD-RW/DVD8X DVD/16XCD Vista Home Ultimate XP Home

06-20-2007, 07:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
Emperor_nero Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 2,315	That is very good. And very funny! Nice work thank you, found it very interesting. __________________ I play Rugby, and no its not like it's sissy cousin with the pads.

06-20-2007, 09:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
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06-21-2007, 01:46 AM	#8 (permalink)
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06-21-2007, 11:39 AM	#9 (permalink)
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06-20-2007, 08:18 AM	#5 (permalink)
INTELCRAZY banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,060	Hmm...Another way to show my clients the efficiency of UPGRADED computers Nice dude

06-21-2007, 06:07 PM	#10 (permalink)
PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 20 Posts: 3,335	Well then it would be hard to read and that wouldn't be any good. No one wants to squint their eyes while listening to music.

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