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We are constantly having to upgrade and add to our storage capacity. One of these days, when virtual storage is more ubiquitous, we might even utilize a significant portion of the capacity we have, but right now we have some storage that is crammed to capacity while other servers sit on partitions with hundreds of free gigabytes.

I go through my files on at least a yearly basis to clean up (I get time off every December, so I do it before the winter break). We are moving some data around so that we can stop relying on a server that is OOP and nobody ever seems to have the time to look through their data to make sure that everything they have stored is necessary.

Of course, the fact that nobody wants to do things like this means that we have massive growth in the amounts of data we store even though I know that only a fraction of it is useful, relevant data. What has your experience been in this area?