How many songs will a terabyte hold?

Answer 1

Well honey, a terabyte can hold approximately 200,000 songs, depending on the length and quality of each song. So, if you're looking to build the ultimate music library, better start downloading those tunes and fill up that terabyte with some bops!

Answer 2

Short answer: about 250,000 songs if each song is 4MB in size.

Long answer: Two factors are important when figuring how many songs fit in a certain amount of space: the average size of each song, and how large a terabyte is.

In my music collection, I have 21,642 music files requiring about 120MB. This works out to an average of 5.5MB per song. So the average size of each song in my collection is 5.5MB.

A terabyte works out to either 1,000,000MB (according to hard drive manufacturers) or 1,048,576MB (according to everyone else). Divide the appropriate number by the average size, and you have your result. Respectively, it'll either be 180,000 songs or 190,000 songs for my own collection.

Your mileage will vary.

Answer 3

approximately 4.5 million 200 page books can be stored on one terabyte