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I read an article a couple of weeks ago about Microsoft raising the Office 365 storage limit to one terabyte. Office 365 is a solution where the end user pays a monthly fee for the MS Office suite along with hosted storage on OneDrive. I really wonder how much storage is enough? Can I really generate and save enough Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files to fill one terabyte? I decided to dig into it further to see just what will fill 1,000 gigabytes.

You could fit approximately 500 hours worth of movies on one terabyte. Assuming each movie is roughly 120 minutes long, that would be about 250 movies. I do know people who have that many movies in their library, so it is possible that they could build a database of movies to fill that space.

You could fit approximately 310,000 photos in one terabyte. You could fit even more if you used a compression algorithm. How would you even catalog that many photos? By time, by subject, by category? Suddenly, we are facing big data issues in our personal lives, and we are going to need similar tools to be able to make sense of all of our potential data stores. With digital photography, it is possible to take a lot of photos without ever having to worry about development costs, so maybe 300,000 pictures is not out of the question.

Hello Marlon,
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Good question! The simple but frustrating answer is: it depends. In my blog example, approximately 86 pages of Word document constitutes one megabyte. That would be a short book but there is extra formatting in Word that takes up even more bytes beyond just the plain characters. In plain ASCII, a character is equivalent to a byte. If you have 50 lines of 50 characters each per page then each page would represent 2500 bytes which means that a 400 page novel would equal 1 megabyte. In a published book there will be some formatting involved because of fonts and other characters so you would be lucky to get a 200 to 300 page book in a megabyte. So, the answer to your question is one.

So, do I have it correct? And if so, when does anyone ever find the time to listen to 100,000 songs? Even if they were 3 minute pop songs that would take almost a year listening 24 hours a day, just to listen to all of them once. When would someone find time to eat, much less time to make silly responses to IT blogs? ?

Thanks for your thoughts. You are correct and I probably need to update this blog post. I was talking with someone the other day about Blu-ray, 4K and mp4. They all require a lot more storage space. I see 1 Tb flash thumb drives now as well as 2, 3, and 4 Tb backup drives from reliable suppliers such as Seagate. The price is coming down as well. I wonder however whether storage makers are are working to keep up with the new content formats or are content providers developing new formats to take advantage of advances in storage technology. The real question however is when will we see the first consumer 1 petabyte drive? Do you care to make any predictions? :-). Thanks for your note.

BTW: just curious: has anyone calculated the theoretical limit for info, e.g. assuming that one bit of info would need at least one electron to store it, how much info is it possible to get on say a cm2 chip? Or maybe the limit is the size of a silicon atom? Have you heard of any such calculations? Thanks ?

So, think three dimensional in terms of silicon chips. Of course, that comes with a lot more complexity in design and processing but it does allow us to keep pushing the boundaries of how much we can store on one device. Now you need to start thinking about how many songs you will be able to fit on a petabyte drive in the future ?

Indeed, we are approaching physical limitations with the amount of information we could store on a solid block of metal. I think that quantum mechanics holds that promise, especially with recent advances in quantum computing; storage may just begin to increase exponentially in the near future.

Thanks for your thoughts and contributions to this blog topic. I think that you are correct that space is no longer becoming an issue. That means that a large hard drive in a computer is no longer a selling feature. Most of them come with at least a 1TB drive which for most people and applications should be adequate so it does no good to tout a computer with a 2, 3 or 4 Tb drive. Besides that, there is also cloud storage as well so not everything is stored on a hard drive anyway. The world is changing indeed.

Thanks David for checking in. It sounds like there is a potential market (I am sure you have like-minded friends) for an easy storage product. I am not familiar with Sort-It but I will have to check it out. It would be great to have a similar product for cataloguing pictures but unfortunately those do not come with bar codes or liner notes except your own memory.

Christa, it sounds like you have a busy household. You may have a lot of data passing over your wi-fi but 1 terabyte of storage should be sufficient for your family unless you start to build up a library of movies or videos or even music. As long as you are streaming content, you are not necessarily storing it so it would not count towards your 1Tb limit. You will most likely be limited in internet bandwidth long before you run out of storage.

Thanks for the note. This topic is almost a nightly conversation in my house due to aging parents so I am thrilled that you have created this service for your clients. It is sorely needed. I will send you an email so we can discuss further.

The first film in the trilogy is Before Sunrise (1995) and tells the story of two young strangers, Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy), who meet on a train and spend a night together in Vienna. Through conversations that span the course of a night, the two form a bond and share their views and philosophies on life and love. In an effort to not spoil the second and third films, all I will say is that the second installment, Before Sunset (2004) takes place nine years later and then the third film, Before Midnight (2013) takes place nine years after the second film.

If you have never seen them before, I am genuinely jealous because I only wish that I could go back and experience these films again for the first time. I watched all three in consecutives nights the first time I saw them and it is an experience I will never forget. If you are looking for a movie to watch with your loved one for Valentines Day (or any day for that matter), I would HIGHLY recommend the Before movies. The first two are currently streaming on HBO Max and the third is currently streaming on MUBI.

For years now, streaming services have been putting out hundreds of what I like to refer to as \u201Calgorithm movies\u201D to rack up views and drive subscriptions for their service. While many streaming services are guilty of this, the repeat offender is Netflix. In fact, they aren\u2019t just a repeat offender, they created the algorithm movie monster.

To me, an algorithm movie is a film that has a compelling storyline and an A-list cast but is ultimately very underwhelming in execution. Algorithm movies could be anything from a bad action movie to a romantic comedy. It\u2019s usually very predictable and whatever formula the writers are going for usually comes off as dull and uninspired. You have probably even seen one or two of these yourself on Netflix over the past few years - \u201CPurple Hearts\u201D, \u201CThe Gray Man\u201D, \u201CRed Notice\u201D, etc. Ironically, most of these \u201Calgorithm movies\u201D are among the most matched movies ever on Netflix, yet the collective audience and critics ripped them apart.

This past weekend we saw a prime example of an algorithm movie hit Netflix. It came in the form of a star studded rom com featuring Ashton Kutcher, Reese Witherspoon, Jesse Williams, and Steve Zahn. \u201CYour Place or Mine\u201D was on paper going to be great. In reality, the film was like almost every other Netflix algorithm movie, completely void of any real emotion or purpose. I am ashamed to admit that I fell for the algorithm trap. When I saw the trailer a few months ago I was completely won over and counting down the days till this film came out. About 25 minutes into the film I couldn\u2019t wait for it to end. Some will say I am being too harsh, but I genuinely wanted the film to succeed. I adore Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon is one of my favorite actresses, but even with all of that, there is no denying that the script feels like something an AI would write, the direction was lackluster, and the chemistry is some of the worst I have ever seen on screen.

Over the weekend I posted a clip of the climatic scene in Your Place or Mine on Twitter (can be seen below) and over 140,000 people viewed the tweet. Of those 140,000 people, I had dozens of people comment, quote tweet, and DM me their thoughts on the film - not a single one of them disagreed with the film being atrocious. Keep in mind that normally nothing I tweet is universally agreed upon. I could tweet \u201CCasablanca is a good movie\u201D and I would have fifteen people in my DMs and twenty trolls calling me out on Twitter. So in a world where no one can agree on anything, why can we all agree that Netflix algorithm movies are bad? And is there anything that we can do to change that?

To start, I want to make it clear that not all algorithm movies are total flops, the term just means that the movie was created with the intent of getting lots of clicks, not for being a great piece of art. If a film has an appealing premise or three or four actors/actresses you like are in the movie, Netflix has already won because you are going to click on the movie. If enough people click the movie, it catapults into their top 10, which means even more people will click on the movie. At no point in that cycle does the film being great play a role in people clicking on it. For this reason, Netflix doesn\u2019t care if their films are good, they just care that you watch them. Sure, they have a couple of awards films that they put out each year, but the bulk of their content is not made to be quality content, it is meant to be consumed. The more things you consume per month, the more likely you are to justify spending money on your subscription for next month.

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