How much data in bytes can a vhs tape hold?
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How much data in bytes can a vhs tape hold?
None cause it's optical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
>>52057764
>optical
>I am fucking retarded
>>52057778
>Hamming Codes
>Reaching channel capacity
>Not using low-density parity checks
Fucking pleb.
>>52057722
Depends on your compression methods.
'bout 2gb
>>52057955
Why would compression affect how much space the tape has?
That's like saying my hdd has more bytes when I compress all my files
>>52057764
5 words and a lot of bullshit, congrats
>>52057722
well i'm confident if you looked around you could find the number of colour levels, pixels per frame and frames per second for the medium and then it depends on the length of the tape
and if you use slow play or not
but degredation will be absolute garbage. estimate around one bit per frame as conservative.
and remember a 4 hour tape will take 4 hours to read/write.
but at least write speed is as fast as read speed so thats a bonus for you
>>52057722
well, a VHS cassette is an analog medium meant to carry a video signal so we shouldn't talk about bytes but as >>52057778 posted there are technologies to use VHS to carry a data signal, there it says it's about 2GB but once again it depends on what do you want to know
I'm pretty sure vhs tapes had varying capacities. It would be foolish to have a 30 min video have the same amount of space on it as a 2 hr movie. It would be a ton of unused tape. So there's no consensus on how much data a vhs tape holds
>>52057722
>saving data on normal VHS tapes
That's a REALLY bad idea.
>>52058048
>>52058064
The article on ArVid states roughly 2GB for a 180 minute tape, so you can work out from that what data capacity you can store on what length tape.
>>52058085
sounds like its about as good as dat tapes then
there was some statistic about 40% of respondants dont properly verify backup tapes, those that did found a massive failure rate or something
>>52057997
do you understand how compression works?
>>52057764
>he doesnt know what is ArVid
>>52062216
>ArVid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
2GB. Noice.
>>52058009
>5 words
you meant 4?
>>52060194
you obviously don't
