Hi, context: I'm working on my capstone project. Currently the plan is to create an app to help Instagram users leverage their content in the algorithm by making large-scale analyses of things like, for example, top performing hashtags within a niche.
Problem: We want the app to be able to hang onto these performance records for an indefinite period of time. It was already understood that the actual data analysis part of the program wouldn't be happening on the phone and instead just have the results communicated in some way, and it happened that I was going to be upgrading my computer setup soon, but I don't think I will have enough storage regardless. I probably would have set up an isolated VM for running the program.
I don't know if my groupmates have some kind of solution but at this point I've written the entire project charter alone and don't expect them to pick up slack for the implementation, so I'm anticipating supplying the hardware entirely on my own.
What do you think would be a sufficient data tower for this kind of project? Should I just invest heavily in a cloud service instead? Thanks in advance.