If we make a number every millisecond, how much data would we have in a day?

Posted by Roger Travis on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Roger Travis
Published on 2012-10-12T21:18:39Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 21:37 UTC
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I'm a bit confused here... I'm being offered to get into a project, where would be an array of certain sensors, that would give off reading every millisecond ( yes, 1000 reading in a second ). Reading would be a 3 or 4 digit number, for example like 818 or 1529. This reading need to be stored in a database on a server and accessed remotely.

I never worked with such big amounts of data, what do you think, how much in terms of MBs reading from one sensor for a day would be?... 4(digits)x1000x60x60x24 ... = 345600000 bits ... right ? about 42 MB per day... doesn't seem too bad, right?

therefor a DB of, say, 1 GB, would hold 23 days of info from 1 sensor, correct?

I understand that MySQL & PHP probably would not be able to handle it... what would you suggest, maybe some aps? azure? oracle? ...

Thansk!

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