How much USB Flash Memory do you need?

How much Flash Memory is needed?

This is not an exact science but we will try to give you some reference points:

A typical 3 1/2 floppy disk holds 1.44 MBs of data so....

• 16MB USB Flash Memory =  11.11 Floppy Disks

• 32MB USB Flash Memory =  22.22 Floppy Disks

• 64MB USB Flash Memory =  44.44 Floppy Disks

• 128MB USB Flash Memory = 88.88 Floppy Disks

• 256MB USB Flash Memory = 177.77 Floppy Disks

• 512MB USB Flash Memory = 355.55 Floppy Disks

An average song uncompressed for a CD is about 32MBs.

An average song compressed for MP3 format is about 3MBs

An average CD-RW has about 650 MB of useable space.

A small one page MS Word Document  is about 30KB.

• 1 floppy disk = about 48-one page MS Word Documents.

A very small MS Excel spread sheet is about 100KB.

• 1 floppy disk = about 14-Excel spread sheets.