Another option may be to leave the raw writing as it is but create our own specialised file format using HDF5. MATLAB supports this and you can incorporate compression. In this way, we'd convert the raw data with MATLAB into a final format, back it up, then delete the original.
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Another option may be to leave the raw writing as it is but create our own specialised file format using HDF5. MATLAB supports this and you can incorporate compression. In this way, we'd convert the raw data with MATLAB into a final format, back it up, then delete the original.