Phillip Clark said: >On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Allen Thomson wrote: >> I.E., about one observation a second on a global average. IIRC, there are >> about 150 - 200 MB of new elements per year >The monthly files which I generate using all of the unclassified element >sets made available by Goddard come to ~550 Mb a year. Oops -- I was probably thinking of the compressed size. So at ~140 uncompressed bytes per elset, that's 4 million a year, about one every eight seconds, > 10,000 a day.