{"id":13299,"date":"2025-04-21T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lean"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:08:15","password":"","slug":"storage-size","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.4iplatform.com\/?docs=storage-size","title":{"rendered":"Storage Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4i Platform utilizes an adaptive algorithm of data compression that is based on the data type and a historical analysis of the signal.\u00a0 Therefore, it is impossible to calculate the storage used by a variable.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <em>maximum<\/em> daily storage size of a variable can be determined by the following formulas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Numerical Tags:\u00a01980 Mb \/ ScanRate\u00a0 [milliseconds]<\/li>\n<li>For Binary Tags:\u00a0860 Mb \/ ScanRate [milliseconds]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A numerical tag that is sampled at one second occupies a maximum of 2Mb per day, but the storage size for a typical industrial numerical variable after compression is approximately <strong>750 Kb per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4i Platform utilizes an adaptive algorithm of data compression that is based on the data type and a historical analysis of the signal.\u00a0 Therefore, it is impossible to calculate the storage used by a variable. 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