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How much is 4,320 megabytes?

It's about as much as an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes)
The amount of an HDTV Television Show (30 Minutes) is about 4,320 megabytes.
(a.k.a. High Definition television, a.k.a. HD) (digital signal, QAM-256; 30 minutes)
Broadcast cable HDTV signals contain about 2.4 megabytes (mB) of data per second, or 4,320 megabytes in a thirty-minute television show. The first High Definition television broadcast was news footage from John Glenn's 1998 mission on the space shuttle Discovery.
It's about nine-tenths as much as a DVD
The amount of a DVD is about 4,800 megabytes.
(a.k.a. digital video disc) (single-side, single-layer; DVD-5 specification)
A typical capacity digital video disc will hold 4,800 megabytes of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
It's about six times as much as a Compact Disc
The amount of a Compact Disc is about 737.30 megabytes.
(80-minute, 360,000 sector disc; "Red Book" specifications)
A typical, 80-minute capacity compact disc, commonly known as a 700 megabyte (mB) disc will actually hold 737.3 megabytes (mB) of data. Such disks are 1.2 mm (0.047 in) thick.
It's about one-tenth as much as a Blu-ray Disc
The amount of a Blu-ray Disc is about 51,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. BD) (dual-layer; Blu-ray disc)
A typical Blu-ray disc will hold 51,000 megabytes of data. The increase in capacity versus a standard DVD is possible because of the smaller wavelength of blue light — 405 nanometers instead of 650 nanometers for the red laser light used in a DVD.
It's about one-fifteenth as much as Wikipedia
The amount of Wikipedia is about 54,000 megabytes.
(2009 figures) (all languages)
As of 2009, Wikipedia held 54,000 megabytes of publicly written and edited encyclopedia articles on 14.5 million subjects as well as associated commentary and discussion. Wikipedia is among the ten most popular websites on the Internet and the only non-profit entity in that group.
It's about one-fortieth as much as an iPod
The amount of an iPod is about 164,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Apple iPod) (2010 figures; for iPod classic, sixth generation)
A sixth-generation, iPod classic MP3 player offers a storage capacity of 164,000 megabytes. Data is stored in the unit's hard drive, a 5,400 RPM SATA drive, which measures about 30 sq. cm (5 sq. in)
It's about 800 times as much as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The amount of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is about 5.30 megabytes.
(ASCII, plain text)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare would occupy about 5.3 megabytes (mB) when written in plain text without formatting. These works include 38 definitively-attributed plays — 11 tragedies, 17 comedies, and 10 tragedies — as well as 154 sonnets and numerous other poems.
It's about one-one-thousandth as much as Watson
The amount of Watson is about 4,200,000 megabytes.
(data store only)
Watson, the IBM supercomputer famous for competing against humans on the televised trivia game show Jeopardy!, utilizes 4,200,000 megabytes of variously-structured data to formulate answers. While "thinking", Watson processes about 510,000 megabytes of data per second.
It's about 1,000 times as much as a MP3 Song
The amount of a MP3 Song is about 3 megabytes.
(a.k.a. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, a.k.a. MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3) (128 Kbps, "near-CD-quality"; 3 minutes duration; average)
A three-minute song of typical quality will be about 3 megabytes (mB) when encoded into MP3 format. The song Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega was used by AT&T-Bell Labs engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to test the compression process and is considered the first MP3 song.
It's about one-one-thousand-five-hundredth as much as a Gap, Inc. Customer Database
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The amount of a Gap, Inc. Customer Database is about 7,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. The GAP Companies, a.k.a. Gap) (2012 figures)
The GAP Inc., the corporate parent of GAP store, Old Navy, and Banana Republic, has accumulated over 7,000,000 megabytes of data on almost a billion customers. The GAP, Inc remains the largest apparel retailer in the United States and was the largest in the world from the mid-1990s until about 2008.
It's about 3,000 times as much as a Digital Photo
The amount of a Digital Photo is about 1.50 megabytes.
(5.3 megapixels, JPEG compression, 100% quality, 24 bits/pixel)
A 5.3-megapixel digital camera photo requires about 1.5 megabytes (mB) of storage space. In 2010, it was expected that 90% of all professionally-taken photographs would be digital instead of film.
It's about 3,000 times as much as a Floppy Disk (3½-in)
The amount of a Floppy Disk (3½-in) is about 1.406250 megabytes.
(high density, IBM PC format)
Despite common reference to them as "1.44" megabyte (mB) disks, the actual capacity of the most common model of a 3&-in (8.9 cm) floppy disk is 1.40625 megabytes (mB). At the height of their use 1996, there were an estimated five billion disks in use — nearly one for each person on Earth at the time.
It's about one-ten-thousandth as much as The Amazon.com's databases
The amount of The Amazon.com's databases is about 44,370,900 megabytes.
(largest databases only; 2005 figures)
Amazon.com maintains information on the millions of items sold on it's e-Commerce website and the websites of its affiliate companies, as well as information on customer orders and browsing history, and excerpts from nearly a quarter-billion books in databases totaling an estimated 45,435,800 megabytes of data. Amazon.com receives over 615 million visits to its US website each year.
It's about one-fifteen-thousandth as much as The Google Earth database
The amount of The Google Earth database is about 73,900,000 megabytes.
(2006 figures) (raw imagery and indexes storage)
As of 2006, Google was storing 73,900,000 megabytes of raw image and index data for its satellite photo and virtual globe application, Google Earth. The application offers high resolution satellite imagery of 60% of the populated areas of the world, according to 2010 estimates.
It's about one-twenty-five-thousandth as much as The LHC Data Generated per Second
The amount of The LHC Data Generated per Second is about 100,000,000 megabytes.
(a.k.a. Large Hadron Collider) (2008 figures)
Capturing millions of measurements per second on millions of subatomic particles, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) facility in Geneva generates 100,000,000 megabytes of data every second. Data collection arrays are placed throughout the LHC's 8.6 km (5.3 mi) circular track.
 
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