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Calculating Capacity Requirements

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Calculating Capacity Requirements

To calculate the amount of data that can be stored within a certain capacity, you need to know three things:

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Size of data being stored

  • The bigger the size of the data being stored, the bigger capacity media will be needed.
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Available capacity

  • The more capacity available, the more data we can store.
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How to convert between the units

  • To find out if we have enough capacity, it is important to put the capacity of the media and the size of the data into the same units.

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