The big decision to make is whether you are going to store data to the flash memory or RAM.
If you are going to capture data at a slow rate (several data points a day) or you need to have the
data survive power cycles, then flash is the way to go. Flash is, however, usually write-cycle life
limited. Check out Fieldpoint Datalogger.vi in the fieldpoint examples.
If you are going to take data faster, or don't have to worry about keeping data across a power outage,
than storing data in memory will probably be better.
Either way you should calculate out your data rate times data size to confirm that your chosen storage
method can handle the data accumulated between downloads.
The flash approach also slightly simplifies the download process, in that you can use ftp or http from
the laptop to grab the data.
A third approach would be to accumulate data for a period, say 24 hours, in memory, and then write
it to flash once. Kind of the best of both options.
Matt
