How many GB would one file cabinet hold?

PohTayToez

PohTayToez

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

[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
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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.
 
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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.
 
Hehe nice work, I think i'll stick to using hard drives then...:rolleyes:

..also ever though about getting a girl? :D
 
first of all roflCOPTER... lol u do got to much time... but i appreciate this lesson.. second of all.. rofl at this dude =P

PohTayToez said:
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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Actually, my friends and I wasted an entire Chemistry period trying to figure out how long it would take to listen to 60GB of audio, say on an iPod Video. I think it calculated one and a half years of constant listening, or like twenty years if only four hours a day.
 
Burgerbob said:
Actually, my friends and I wasted an entire Chemistry period trying to figure out how long it would take to listen to 60GB of audio, say on an iPod Video. I think it calculated one and a half years of constant listening, or like twenty years if only four hours a day.
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Average audio quality = 128kb/s

128kb/s * 1000b/kb * 1B/8b = 16,000B/s
60GB * 1024MB/GB * 1024KB/MB * 1024B/KB = 64424509440B
64424509440B / 16,000B/s = 4026531.84s
4026531.84s * 1min/60s * 1hr/60min * 1day/24hr = 46.60337 days
 
PohTayToez said:
Average audio quality = 128kb/s

128kb/s * 1000b/kb * 1B/8b = 16,000B/s
60GB * 1024MB/GB * 1024KB/MB * 1024B/KB = 64424509440B
64424509440B / 16,000B/s = 4026531.84s
4026531.84s * 1min/60s * 1hr/60min * 1day/24hr = 46.60337 days
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If you didnt stop listening. We calculated it by four hours a day.
 
Burgerbob said:
I think it calculated one and a half years of constant listening, or like twenty years if only four hours a day.
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PohTayToez said:
Average audio quality = 128kb/s

128kb/s * 1000b/kb * 1B/8b = 16,000B/s
60GB * 1024MB/GB * 1024KB/MB * 1024B/KB = 64424509440B
64424509440B / 16,000B/s = 4026531.84s
4026531.84s * 1min/60s * 1hr/60min * 1day/24hr = 46.60337 days
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46.60337 days = 0.1276 years ¬ 1.5 years

or

46.60337 days = 279.62022 days @ 4 hours/day = 0.766 years ¬ 20 years


Burgerbob said:
If you didnt stop listening. We calculated it by four hours a day.
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I don't see how that changes my answer.
 
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