LabVIEW

cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

maximum length of tdms file

Solved!
Go to solution

Hi Wonder if I could be advised, really cant be learning the hard way again!

If we log at 500kS/s into TDMS file, Is there a length/size after which data is not added into TDMS columns anymore? Or it continues logging till windows throws message that system is running out of memory?

 

Many Thanks

K Waris

ATE and Labview Consultant
https://www.easybodge.com
0 Kudos
Message 1 of 4
(6,349 Views)

As far as I know, with TDMS, you'd be limited by the size of the hard drive long before you were to reach any row number limit.



I saw my father do some work on a car once as a kid and I asked him "How did you know how to do that?" He responded "I didn't, I had to figure it out."
0 Kudos
Message 2 of 4
(6,308 Views)
Solution
Accepted by topic author k-waris

I assume it's the file system limitations. If you're e.g. using FAT32 it's 4GB max file size. If using NTFS it should be 16TB(!).

/Y

G# - Award winning reference based OOP for LV, for free! - Qestit VIPM GitHub

Qestit Systems
Certified-LabVIEW-Developer
Message 3 of 4
(6,281 Views)

Hi K Warris,

 

It is like Yamaeda says, in general it will be limited by your file system on your operating system. So for FAT32 the theoretical max file size is 4GB and for NTFS it's 16EB (16 million TB!!).

 

More information can be found here: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/07227F8B6D29283B86256CB1008329BC?OpenDocument

 

Hope this helps?

Joe P
Applications Engineer
National Instruments UK & Ireland
Message 4 of 4
(6,231 Views)