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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,
Thanks for reading our blog. In a blog coming up next week I do a short review of a product by Western Digital called Personal Cloud or a sister product called Personal Cloud Mirror which has two mirrored drives at level 1 RAID. They are meant to be a personal cloud so that you can access your data, photos, music or movies anywhere. The mirroring is important to save your data in the event of a disaster or drive failure. Check it out at: and let me know what you think.

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.

Spending a lot more time at home has led to a lot of channel flicking seeking inspiration for our wanderlust. Whilst our list of travel TV shows fills some of the void, we put our heads together to think of some of our favourite travel movies. Movies like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Sticking with our Iceland theme, Will Ferrell and Rachel MacAdams star in Eurovision. Some light hearted comedy relief, Ferrell and MacAdams play an Icelandic singing duo with dreams of representing Iceland in Eurovision.

A long winded title for sure, but it gives you just a hint of what is to come in this Swedish movie. The story follows Allan Karlsson as he begins to turn his mind to turning one hundred. He decides to climb out the window and go on his own adventure to celebrate his centenary.

Under the Tuscan Sun is another mid-life crisis movie in some of the same spirit as Eat Pray Love. Our lead character Frances find out her husband is cheating on her and she looks for a way to make the best of a bad situation.

Taking a holiday in Italy, Frances does what comes naturally and buys a spur of the moment Tuscan villa. Nothing will help her overcome her life than living in a run down villa that needs some serious attention.

I hope and pray that the 1995 Oscar winner for Best Picture has been viewed by most readers, but if not, newbies are in for a treat. Forrest, played by Tom Hanks is a mentally challenged man who lives life to the absolute fullest. The movie follows his experiences throughout America, the deep south and his time in the Vietnam War.

Bill Murray plays Bob Harris, a character one wonders must have quite a bit of his own personality infused. Says the man who has never met Bill Murray. Harris is a well known international celebrity who travels to Tokyo for a series of promotions and advertisements for Suntory whisky.

Dealing with death in such a way, there are a few teary moments. Tom finds solace along the way with a number of other pilgrims and begins to open up and take in the experience which has a few curveballs for good measure.

Whilst Walter Mitty travels the world solo, Green Book sees our main characters travel the Deep South of the US as a duo. Dr Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist who travels to the southern states to perform during the period of high segregation. Shirley needs a driver and recruits Tony Lip, a bouncer from the Bronx as his driver and in some ways protector.

The story highlights the challenges of the era. Shirley is allowed to perform, however is still segregated like any other black person of the time. Shirley and Lip develop an unlikely friendship given their different upbringings. And like so many good travel movies, serve to show how shared experiences can bring people together.

Leonardo Di Caprio plays Richard, an American backpacker is search of the perfect Thai getaway. A life on the beach, amongst beauty and a tight community. Richard finds that and more as he discovers an island which sits on the real life Maya Bay. A stunning bay with crystalline water and white sand.

Bringing things a little closer to home to us here in Australia, Tracks follows Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) on a journey across the outback. A real life story, we follow Robyn as she takes four camels and a dog on a journey from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

Setting out in 1977 as a single female and a harsh Australian outback, Robyn is confronted with a range of challenges along the way. Not least of all an American photographer who wants to document her trip whilst Robyn wants to complete it solo.

Owen Wilson plays the lead role of Gil, a writer on holiday in Paris. In the evening, he tours the city alone. One evening he stumbles across a group of people who transport him back in time, enabling him to effectively time travel.

With a beautiful love story and catchy music, it's no wonder you would be looking for more movies like Mamma Mia!. From modern musicals, like La La Land, to matrimony movies, like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the below list features a comprehensive selection of films that celebrate love, life, and the power of a good song.

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