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Crunching the Numbers. According to Apple, a standard-definition movie averages about 1.5GB in size, so only two such files would fit within the 3.73GB space of a 4GB flash drive, leaving a little over 700MB for other files.
There are too many variables to come back with a number of hours or movies. But here are some guidelines. A DVD can hold a max of 4.7 GB of data (a Dual layer DVD can hold about 8 but movies are single layer) So a 1 TB drive can hold a minimum of 212 DVD movies. More if they don't take the fill 4.7 GB each.