How many hours of pictures can this hold vs a 1TB drive? null

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Pumb · Accepted Answer

It's hard to measure pictures in hours, but exactly 8 times as much vs 1TB drive.

Stan · Answer

That's going to depend on the compression and format of your media files. The entire 8TB appears as a single partition on my linux machines at least, so an 8TB drive will hold 8 times the amount as a 1TB. A DVD you own and rip to storage as an ISO may be a 6GB iso file, a 1.5 GB H.264 mkv at original resolution, or a 700 MB avi at 720p, all depends on what sort of transcoding you perform at rip time. A SWAG would average a DVD ripped to ISO at around 5 GB, so around 1600 lossless format DVD images would fit on an 8TB drive. Blueray rips are much larger. Most animation / cartoon files compress much more, as does most B&W films if you choose to transcode / encode at rip time.

Answered by Stan 7 years ago

JayWD · Answer

Google says a 1TB HDD can hold around 2 million pictures. Take into account that different quality pictures will be different sizes(the better the quality the larger the file will be), thus taking up more space. So, Theoretically, an 8TB HDD could hold x8 what a 1TB HDD can hold, so using the 2 million per 1TB measurement you can store 16 million pictures on an 8TB HDD. Videos are a different story, depends on quality and length.

Answered by JayWD 7 years ago

Eric · Answer

About 8 times as much.

Mcjoe · Answer

It should hold 8 times as much - but plan on seven times just to be safe!

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