how many hours of video will a terabyte hard drive give me on my computer (i do video editing) thanks?

Answer 1

Assuming you do not have a professional setup, "Video consumes quite a bit of hard disk space! At 320x240, you will only be able to store about 10 minutes of video on a 1 Gigabyte hard disk!"

Using the data below as a base we can derive how much time you get from 1 TB. These figures are for capture size requirements.

image size=320x240
frames/second=30 frames/sec
bytes/second=1.7 Mbytes/sec
1 minute video=104 Mbytes

1 TB=1,048,576 MB/104MB= approx 10,082 Minutes
or approx 168 hours.

Answer 2

This is copied from the link below......

1 TB is also enough to store more than
300,000 6-megapixel images,
250,000 MP3s,
1000 hours of standard definition video or
250 hours of high-definition video.

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/blog/2007/01/hitachi-7k1000-1-terabyte-hard-disk.htm

For anyone wanting a picture to look at for reference, the manufacturers box clearly states how much will fit on their drive, just open this next link.......

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/hitachis-1tb-deskstar-7k1000-in-the-wild/

Answer 3

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Answer 4

You will need to work out all your video file sizes. and depending on what format you save them under.
you will need to find out how much video you can hold in a mega byte and multiply that by the number of megea byes your hard drive will hold

Answer 5

If 1 1.5 hour movie is 4.5GB 4.5/1.5= 3GB/hour
1TB = 1000 GB
1000GB/3 GB/hour = 333 Hours

Answer 6

170 hours id say