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As a systems administrator/configuration engineer, I’m well aware of the value in organizing and maintaining data. But as this blog posting by a fellow sysadmin attests, often we go overboard.
If you’ve worked in IT long enough, you’ve heard the platitude that “disk space is cheap”. Sure, compared to the washing machine sized disks from the mainframe era it is cheap, but it’s still far from next to nothing. And I don’t think it ever will be. In terms of hardware, enterprise RAID storage is still more expensive than the $1k consumer terrabyte media servers that are becoming popular. But the human cost is always there- time spent searching through useless data, time spent shuffling ancient data between servers, time spent backing up data that will never be looked it.
” Only Keep What We Need” by The Lone Sysadmin
[tags]sysadmin, storage[/tags]