Tools
Practical utilities and reference models to help you choose the right digital storage capacity.
Storage Reality Calculator
Primary toolFind the storage size that fits your needs. Answer four everyday questions—or customize exact photo counts, video bitrates, and game libraries—to get a hardware tier recommendation from 64 GB to 4 TB+.
- • 1 to 5+ year growth modeling
- • 20% system & free-space headroom
- • Shareable result links
- • Optional advanced overrides
Start by device or use case
Jump straight into the calculator pre-configured for a specific storage decision.
Phone Storage Planner
Start the calculator configured for iPhone or Android apps, photos, 4K clips, and system headroom.
Laptop SSD Planner
Estimate local storage for macOS or Windows programs, documents, offline media, and project files.
Gaming Storage Planner
Plan PC, console, or handheld storage based on how many indie, mid-size, and AAA games you keep installed.
Photography Library Planner
Model existing photo archives and monthly shooting volume across HEIC, high-res JPEG, and RAW.
Video Recording Planner
Calculate storage growth for 1080p, 4K, and 8K video at 30fps or 60fps, or enter a custom Mbps bitrate.
Cloud Backup Planner
Estimate how much cloud storage your photos, videos, and personal documents will need over 1–5 years.
Methodology & reference tables
Inspect the file-size benchmarks, formulas, and worked examples used by our calculation engine.
Photo File Size Assumptions
→Typical MB per photo and realistic ranges for HEIC/JPEG phone photos, 24–48 MP high-res modes, DSLR/mirrorless JPEGs, and RAW files.
Video Bitrate & MB/Minute Table
→How Mbps converts to MB per minute (1 Mbps = 7.5 MB/min) across 720p, 1080p, 4K, and 8K at 30fps and 60fps.
Game & Application Size Benchmarks
→Modern install size estimates for indie, mid-size, and 100 GB+ AAA games, plus everyday and creative software suites.
Headroom & Storage Tier Thresholds
→Why we reserve 20% working headroom and how planned capacity maps to standard 64 GB – 4 TB hardware tiers.