Approximately how many books can you fit on a typical hard drive?

[fordongreeman]

Approximately how many books is it possible to fit onto a typical modern hard drive?

 

[jaslion]

Approximately how many books is it possible to fit onto a typical modern hard drive?

If just written words and I'm assuming a 1tb capacity of your hdd (you did not state this) and I assume the books are 5mb in size (common when they have an couple illustrations). You can easily fit over 200.000 books on there.

 

[The Paladin]

assuming 1TB drive

average "epub book" like a best seller on the NY listing is about 1.5MB each
average "PDF book" like a best seller on the NY listing is about 50 MB each
average "epub illustrated book" is about 50MB each
average audiobook can run easily 500MB each

Based on a WD Black 1TB HDD I own 1TB drives is 931GB or 1,000,202,006,528 Bytes of information
and understanding that 1.5MB = 1,572,864 Bytes, 50MB = 52,428,800 Bytes and 500MB = 524,288,000 Bytes

you can calculate it can hold (if only holding this information and nothing else (i.e. a second storage drive for this purpose alone)
1,000,202,006,528 / 1,572,864 = 635, 911 epub Books or 1.5MB size
1,000,202,006,528 / 52,428,800 = 19,077 of 50MB Size PDF/Illustrated Books
1,000,202,006,528 / 524,288,000 = 1,907 of 500MB audiobooks

hope that was detailed enough for you

 

[karenjoly]

bravo !

 

[Math Geek]

assuming 1TB drive

average "epub book" like a best seller on the NY listing is about 1.5MB each
average "PDF book" like a best seller on the NY listing is about 50 MB each
average "epub illustrated book" is about 50MB each
average audiobook can run easily 500MB each

Based on a WD Black 1TB HDD I own 1TB drives is 931GB or 1,000,202,006,528 Bytes of information
and understanding that 1.5MB = 1,572,864 Bytes, 50MB = 52,428,800 Bytes and 500MB = 524,288,000 Bytes

you can calculate it can hold (if only holding this information and nothing else (i.e. a second storage drive for this purpose alone)
1,000,202,006,528 / 1,572,864 = 635, 911 epub Books or 1.5MB size
1,000,202,006,528 / 52,428,800 = 19,077 of 50MB Size PDF/Illustrated Books
1,000,202,006,528 / 524,288,000 = 1,907 of 500MB audiobooks

hope that was detailed enough for you

I LOVE IT WHEN THINGS GET ALL MATHY IN HERE!!!!

 

[The Paladin]

*takes a bow *