Monday, 23 May 2011

Sizing Up Your Options

Many people do not have a clue what size USB Flash Drives to purchase. Here is some information to help you select the proper size so you don’t under or over buy. This is just a guideline and will vary somewhat according to the size of your files.
Writers, Educators, Sales and other Business Professionals and Executives can use the following to determine how many documents and presentations will fit on a drive: http://www.usbpromos.com/
Size
Word Document
PDF Document
PowerPoint
128 MB
2,304
384
357
256 MB
4,718
786
715
512 MB
9,437
1,573
1,430
1 GB
18,874
3,146
2,860
2 GB
37,749
6,291
5,719
4 GB
75,497
12,583
11,439
8 GB
150,995
25,166
22,878
16 GB
301,990
50,331
45,756
32 GB
603,980
100,663
91,512
64 GB
1,207,959
201,326
183,024


Here is a guideline for Photographers, Artists, Musicians and other Multimedia Professionals for loading photographs, movies and music:

Size
Photographs
Movies
Songs
128 MB
76

28
256 MB
153

57
512 MB
307

115
1 GB
614

230
2 GB
1,229
1
460
4 GB
2,457
2
921
8 GB
4,915
5
1,843
16 GB
9,830
10
3,686
32 GB
19,661
21
7,372
64 GB
39,321
42
14,745

Smaller Drives:
64 MB drives are also available and perfect for a small business, individual or startup who is looking to save money. You can load approximately 1,200 word documents, 40 photographs or 14 songs on a 64MB drive.

File Size: The estimates above are based on the following average file size

Word Document
PDF
PowerPoint
Photograph
Movie
Song
50 kb
300 kb
330 kb (10 Slides)
1.5 MB
1.5 GB
4 MB per song

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