How Many Photos On A Memory Stick?

[wolf63]

This question shows how little I understand computers.

If I wanted to store 1,000 photos on a memory stick how many gigabytes would the memory stick have to have?

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on the average photo file size, which depends on the number of pixels in the photo. And what format the file is.

[wolf63]

A guesstimation? We need to declutter our shop computer.

I have an eight gigabyte stick for moving stuff from my home laptop. Maybe we will have to get another one.

Thanks

[Buenchico]

As there are 1000MB in 1GB, if your pictures are (for example) each 4MB in size, you'd need a 4GB car to hold them all.

Assuming that your pictures are in the JPEG format (as most are), rather than being something like RAW files, if they've been taken on a fairly basic digital camera, or with a fairly basic mobile phone, they might have file sizes of around 1MB or 2MB each. If they've been taken on a top-of-the range digital camera, or on an expensive mobile phone, they might have file sizes of around 8MB.

In practice, the smallest size memory stick sold in many shops these days is 16GB, which should easily be able to hold 1000 JPEG files (irrespective of the device that they've been taken on).

https://groceries.asda.com/product/data-storage/sandisk-cruzer-blaze-16gb-usb-flash-drive/910000422630

[jno]

you'd need a 4GB car

A Honda Civic should hold them all.

[Buenchico]

If you're still confused, open the folder (on your shop computer) that contains the pics you want to move. Here's an example from my own computer:
http://upl.co/uploads/GhentPics1527627553.jpg

A quick glance down the 'Size' column shows that most of my pics are around 3Mb in size, so I'd need 3GB of space on a USB stick to store 1000 of them.

[wolf63]

Thanks all

I will have a look at it tomorrow.

[Old_Geezer]

Best to have too much capacity than not enough. Why not get a 16G one ?

[shanehaumpton]

This is a broad scenario. To add on from the answer of Buenchico you can also .zip the files so that it will become smaller.

[Old_Geezer]

Compression is a possibility, but jpegs are pretty compressed already. One might find the overhead the zip requires is greater than the data space saved.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Zipping jpeg files doesn't result in a significant reduction in file size because jpeg is already a compressed format. Indeed, I've known a zip file containing jpeg images to actually be larger than the aggregate size of those images.

[wolf63]

I passed the information on to the relevant person.

I have spent the morning uploading things (old postcards to sell) onto our charity's site and it is not very user-friendly. I need a nap now.