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What's better: 1 big HDF file or several samller ones?? [message #32236] Wed, 25 September 2002 00:17
Brian Huether is currently offline  Brian Huether
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Registered: September 2002
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I have radar data that is broken down based on target orientation (i.e. the
data is split into 72 5 degree azimuthal windows). So do I create one HDF
file with 72 datasets? The other thing to consider is this: I need to run
computational algorithms that will need to access the data so are there
speed considerations when saving the data this way? Basically I have to data
storage goals: 1) make the data readily shareable, 2)make the data storage
appropriate for quick retrieval.

I suppose when it comes to the computational stuff, I can use the one big
file and then one time I can just read all the info into an array. So the
awkwardness of the big file will only be problematic one time.

Any thoughts?

-brian
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