How many MP3s or photos can I put on my wink drive?

Updated: 04/12/2021 by Computer Hope

USB flash drive

The number of songs or photos that fit on a flash drive depend on several factors:

  • Size of the flash drive or storage device.
  • Length of the song or quality of the picture.
  • Sound quality of the MP3.

Size of the flash drive

The more storage space the flash drive has, the more MP3s (sound files), photos, and videos that tin be saved to the bulldoze. For example, 5 GB capacity tin hold much more than 1 GB. Common wink drive sizes are ii TB (terabyte), one TB, 128 GB (gigabyte), and 64 GB.

Length of the song or quality of the film

Tip

To determine what size of wink drive to get, back up your songs or pictures and wait at the size of the backup. Once you lot've determined the size, purchase a flash drive that meets or exceeds your requirements. Meet: How do I decide the size of a file or folder?

General rule on file sizes

Every bit mentioned in the MP3 files and picture (i.e., GIF and JPEG) files sections, the amount of any file varies depending on their length, quality, and overall size. The following chart provides a general idea of how many MP3 audio files can fit on a flash drive based on the boilerplate file size. For virtually users, they can assume their average MP3 size is 6 MB and an average photo size of 3 MB.

Annotation

The numbers in the nautical chart are based on an assumption that the operating system considers a GB to be 1,024 MB.

Flash drive size 8 MB MP3 half dozen MB MP3 3 MB Photo 2 MB Photo x MB Raw Photo
512 MB 64 85 170 256 51
ane GB 128 170 340 512 102
2 GB 256 341 682 1,024 204
3 GB 384 512 i,024 1,536 307
4 GB 512 682 1,364 ii,048 409
5 GB 640 853 1,706 two,560 512
6 GB 768 one,024 ii,048 3,072 614
8 GB 1,024 1,365 two,730 4,096 819
16 GB 2,048 2,730 five,460 8,192 one,638
32 GB 4,096 v,461 10,922 xvi,384 three,276
64 GB 8,192 10,922 21,844 32,768 6,553
128 GB xvi,384 21,845 43,690 65,536 13,107
256 GB 32,768 43,690 87,380 131,072 26,214

MP3 file sizes

Note

Flash drive is often interchanged with USB wink drive, data stick, pen bulldoze, retentivity unit, keychain drive, and leap drive.

Important

The term memory stick is frequently improperly used when referring to a flash drive.

If the MP3 file is created at 128 kbit/south quality (the bitrate), the file size will be near i/11th the original music CD file size. However, the original size is not ever known.

A fairly common MP3 quality is 256 kbit/south. Downloading MP3 songs from Amazon.com or iTunes gets you lot this quality of MP3 file. There are other sources for MP3 files on the Internet, ranging from 128 kbit/s to 320 kbit/s.

On average, let's say a vocal is iii 1/2 minutes long. At this length and 256 kbit/south quality, the MP3 file size would be half dozen.56 MB. At three minutes, the file would be 5.62 MB and 4 minutes would be 7.5 MB.

If the MP3 songs are higher quality (320 kbit/southward), you won't be able to fit quite as many on the flash drive since the file sizes would be larger. If the quality was lower (192 kbit/s or 128 kbit/s), you lot could fit more MP3s on the flash bulldoze.

Ultimately, how many songs fit depends on your preference of MP3 sound quality. Lower bit rate results in lower sound quality, merely more songs on the flash drive. A college bit rate results in college audio quality, but fewer songs on the wink drive.

Motion picture (e.g., JPEG and GIF) sizes

A photographic camera can take a picture in many different file sizes, depending on the quality of the picture and the type of camera used. Therefore, the quantity of pictures a wink drive can store can vary depending on the size of each picture.

Generally speaking, almost cameras take pictures that are around 3 MB in size. A prison cell phone camera ordinarily takes a 2-three MB movie at its highest setting, and an SLR camera taking photos in the RAW format tin can be as big as 10 MB.