Maker Electronics Math · Chapter 11

Storage Days, Bytes Per Year & What Sending Costs

Storage is a second battery. It has a capacity and a drain rate, and it may well run out first.

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Enter a record size and an interval, then press Calculate.
From the book — Chapter 11. storage days = capacity in BYTES ÷ (records per day × bytes per record). An “8 Mbit” chip is one megabyte — divide by eight before you plan around it.

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