How Many Pages in a Gigabyte?

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Your client calls to request an estimate of how much it will cost to conduct a review of the client’s electronic files. In your mind the formula is clear—the number of pages to review divided by the number of attorneys on the review team divided by the average number of pages reviewed each day equals a rough estimate of the number of attorney hours required for review. In such a scenario, attorneys may find themselves trying to do quick calculations on Post-it® notes based solely on the number of gigabytes. Unfortunately, that leaves one key factor in the equation unknown: What is the number of pages?

Arriving at the answer can be a little tricky. The number of pages in a given file varies widely based on different file types and characteristics; such as whether the original file contains system data in addition to the readable data (as in a .pst email file); includes special formatting (as in an .xls spreadsheet file); or contains only pure text (as in a .txt text file). The secret to making a good page estimate is to evaluate the file types included in the data-set.

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