Red Mosquito

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?

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

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?

wat

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

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