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how much is a terabyte when comparing to a regular audio file? In hours? - Reba


Posted: Apr 09, 2013

how much is a terabyte when comparing to a regular audio file?  How much shoud I charge?

A terabyte is HUGE! - baffled

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I'm amazed that an audio file could be terabytes in size. I'd be surprised if your fingers and wrists would last long enough to transcribe it. If it is an extremely high resolution video, maybe. But not audio!

I googled "How big is a terabyte" and came up with this: If your average MP3 is 3 megabytes, 1 terabyte would hold 333,333 songs, or if you had a handful of 4.7 gigabyte DVD movies you could store 213 movies.

See? How long will it take you to transcribe 1/3 of a million songs?


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