The best assumption would be that the Death Star plans were likely 100 to 1000 times as "large" as "typical plans". This is answerable (at least in part). @Valorum - agreed. Say it was autocad, and a large building with volume of 1,000,000 cubic metres needed 100Mb file. More @Wikipedia
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