You'll likely have to buffer the output to a ramdisk and then slowly bleed
that to the disk.  Compression typically doesn't work well on IQ data
unless you've got a structured signal in there.  If there's a lot of white
noise, you won't get much compression

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:00 AM Dave NotTelling <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Anyone have experience with streaming 100+ MSPS of 16 bit IQ data through
> a compression tool and then to disk?  I'd like to be able to take really
> wide band snaps for several minutes.  Currently that would take up 16 * 2 *
> SAMP_RATE bits per second.  So, for 200 MSPS that would end up being 800
> MBytes/s.  That rate eats up a hard drive pretty quickly.  Running it
> through gzip by way of pigz was my first thought, but even on an 8 core
> Intel machine pigz just can't keep up.  I can sustain maybe 300 MBytes/s
> but that's it.  And I know it's not a hard disk limitation as the M.2 drive
> I am using can easily sustain 800 MBytes/s of uncompressed data.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> -Dave
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Very Respectfully,

Dan CaJacob
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