[BC] A Question About Audio Logging and hard Drive space

[Goran Tomas]

> I was talking to a friend today in a major US market where 
> they, on Hard Drive, record the audio of their 3 stations 
> along with that of 4 competitors stations 24 hous a day 7 
> days a week. It is encoded at 192K/44hz stereo.
> They purge it after 90 days.
> 
> My quesito nfor you smart folk is this... After 3 months of 
> recording 7 stations at 192K/44hz stereo for 24 hours a day.. 
> how big are all 7 "files"
> going to be? 

192 kbps --> 23.4 KB/s 
(interestingly, Google calculates this wrongly as 24 kB/s)

90 days --> 90 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 7776000 seconds

7776000 s * 23.4 KB/s = 181958400 KB = 173.53 GB (per stations per 90 days)

For seven stations that is 1.19 TB


Regards,
Goran Tomas