Help B with an Excel Question

[B]

So, for work, I'm giving providers some temperature data loggers that take a store a temperature reading every half hour. That's about 17,500 lines in a csv file if they let it go for a year. I keep getting asked, how big of a thumb drive would you need to hold that size of an excel sheet.

I can't imagine it takes very much space at all, but I just have no idea. Anyone have a guess at how big that file would be at the end of a year?

[96583UP]

if it's just a number per line that's not gonna take up too much memory

i wonder if that would even approach 10 MB

some other honkey help me out here

[Sgt. Crackpot]

How much data per line, i.e. how many characters?

Could be as small as 150K, or up to around a few MB or so. Do you have a sample line of data?

[BurtReynolds]

wat

[Self]

I'm looking at csv file that has 2743 lines with 9 fields. The fields average 10 characters and the file is 288 KB.

[E.H. Ruddock]

B, you can get a 64GB thumb drive for like ten bucks. I don't think you'll hit that with an excel sheet.