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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.
You could fit approximately 500 hours worth of movies on one terabyte. Assuming each movie is roughly 120 minutes long, that would be about 250 movies. I do know people who have that many movies in their library, so it is possible that they could build a database of movies to fill that space.Pictures.t is estimated that 85,899,345 pages of Word documents would fill one terabyte. Now, if you can truly generate that much content, you have a serious archiving task on your hands.