Hi,
Your post is a bit confusing.
You talk about many useless things (cost, adafuit, connector, "best")
.. but miss to tell about important things. Just vague information like"im just having trouble pushing the data somewhere where i can read it and log it.".
Is it that you can´ write the software, or can´t find libraries..)
is it a hardware problem, like findid a suitable media (printer, EEPROM, HDD...)
is it that you don´t know which interface to use
Is it a datarate problem,
or memory size problem
or anything else.
read and log:
* printer and paper
* 7 segment display and EEPROM
* graphic display for a chart
* pc with monitor and HDD
* and many other ..
please focus on the real problem. First define your requirements: (data rate, medium, size, interface...)
Then tell what is clear so far ... and what exactly the problem is.
Klaus