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Media & Capacities
Media |
Capacity |
Page Potential |
3 ½ Floppy |
1-2 MB |
75-250 |
Zip Disk |
100-250 MB |
5,000-20,000 |
Full CD |
650 MB |
50,000 |
Jaz Drive |
2 GB |
150,000 |
DVD |
4.7 GB |
350,000 |
DAT Tape |
4-2- GB |
300k to 1.5 Million |
Travan Tape |
20 GB |
1.5 Million |
DLT Tape |
40-80 GB |
3-6 Million |
Super DLT |
60-120 GB |
4-9 Million |
Hard Drives |
4 GB & up |
300,000 & up |
Rules of Thumb
1 MB |
75 Pages |
1 GB |
75,000 |
Pages per E-Mail |
1.8 |
Pages per Document |
3.8 |
Average .PST (Outlook) or .NSF (Lotus Notes) email
File Size |
Average Emails |
Average Attachments |
32K .pst |
0 |
0 |
100 MB .pst |
900 |
300 |
200 MB .pst |
1,800 |
600 |
400 MB .pst |
3,500 |
1,200 |
600 MB .pst |
5,500 |
1,600 |
1.0 GB .nsf |
9,000 |
3,000 |
1.5 GB .nsf |
13,500 |
4,500 |
How Many Pages in a Gigabyte
Document Type |
Average Page Per Document |
Average Page per Gigabyte |
Word |
8 |
64,782 |
1.8 |
100,099 |
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Excel |
50 |
165,791 |
Lotus 1-2-3 |
55 |
287,317 |
Powerpoint |
14 |
17,552 |
Text Files |
20 |
677,963 |
Image Files |
1.4 |
15,477 |