How Many Floppy Disks is 1TB?
711,111
3.5" Floppy Disks (1.44 MB each)
One terabyte (1TB) of storage equals approximately 711,111 floppy disks. If you stacked these floppies on top of each other, the pile would be over 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) tall!
In the 1990s, installing a large program might require 20-30 floppy disks. Today's games and applications would require hundreds of thousands of disk swaps.
1TB Also Equals:
- CDs (700 MB)1,429
- DVDs (4.7 GB)213
- Blu-ray Discs (25 GB)40
- HD Movies (1.5 GB)683
- MP3 Songs (4 MB)262,144
- Dial-up Download Time4.5 years
- 5G Download Time11 hours