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How many cats can fit in a 1 terabyte?


So how many cats can you fit inside one terabyte hard disk? We got one — Lemon the cat, was so eager to explore a new byte-size home. This is a 1 TB external HDD with USD2.0 connectivity from Western Digital, purchased over the weekend in KL.

Hmm.. if you are an mp3 collector, typically a decent size mp3 will be at about 3000 kilobytes or about 3,000,000 bytes per song (1 kb = 1024 bytes). So that means in 1 TB, you can fit at least 333,333 mp3 songs!! If you want proof, just divide 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (approx 1 TB) with 3,000,000 bytes per song. So, that is a huge collection of songs. Again, if one song is about 4 minutes; you can then listen all of them for at least 2.5 years continuously! Yeah.. Malaysia BOLEH!

So how many cats can fit in? One character is 1 byte, so CATS has 4 characters, or 4 bytes. So there will be 250, 000,000,000 cats can fit in inside 1 TB :-)

Western Digital says: This 1 TB can hold:

Up to 285,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 440 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 120 hours of HD video

One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.

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15 November 2008 at 22:00 · Comments
zenoed
zenoed
So far, this was a great bargain! Once purchased, this just plugs right in and you can already use it — yes, it was pre-formatted! It is a bit heavy but that’s okay unless you move around with it all the time. In fact, it was meant to be solid as the casing was metal with soft plastic padding. Nice and sleek design. Not much expectation featurewise, but what should we expect from an external HDD? Probably some backup software that comes together with it? In this case, there was none.

On other note; when the USB is plugged out or when rebooting, the power dies down automatically for about 40 to 50 seconds; so this could be a potential lifetime reducer; especially when you keep getting the HDD rebooted for whatvever reasons (there is trouble when rebooting every 30 minutes is your norm!).
17 November 08 at 22:15
cicak
Wah! never seen a 1TB hardisk before. I bought an external 250GB Maxtor hardisk recently and after 3 hours I realize, I need more space!
Maybe a 1TB hardisk will do, but aiya, what if you saved all your precious stuff inside and suddenly the hardisk fail?
Does the 1TB hardisk comes with a power plug?

eh, and BTW, new cat? :)
20 November 08 at 17:37
zenoed
zenoed
cicak, for mammoth size HDD, you’ll need the HDD physical size to be big as well (3.5″ casing), and therefore, you’ll need the external power., and 1TB will need that (yes, it comes with power plugs). You may get away from external power if you are using what is termed as laptop HDD (2.5″ casing) — the largest so far i think is 320gb running on USB power..(not sure where did i see this, but i knew i did once). Possibly there is a 2.5″ HDD up to 500GB but i’ve never seen one so far.

3.5″ HDD needs abt 12V or at least 20watts to get sufficient power needed to spin the HDD), and since USB can only supply 5watts, we probably wont see 1TB on USB so soon.

One option is to get firewire HDD; because firewire can give at least 2+ x the typical power needed.
20 November 08 at 20:35
Zen Gabing
hello there
30 March 10 at 01:56