MORE pointless stats!

By SysAdmin1138 on
I haven't done an inventory on the Student user-volumes in a while, so I ran a report just now. This is one of three volumes, but statisticly it should be good.

  • Total files were around 920,000 files.
  • Top file-type by bytes were PPT files (~42GB).
  • Top file-type by count were DOC files (~18GB).
  • WMA files were the #8 top consumer of space (~8GB) , MP3 the #9 (~7.2GB).
  • 77% of files were modified less than 2 years ago.
  • 51% of files were modified less than 1 year ago.
A theoretical HSM solution that archives on modified-date rather than accessed-date wouldn't buy us all that much. I'm not looking at Last Access date since in this modern era of Google Desktop and all the Macintosh Spotlight clones, it is pointless.

Now compare the data from the Faculty/Staff Shared volume:
  • Total files were around 1,800,000 files.
  • Top file-type by bytes were DOC files (125GB).
  • Top file-type by cound were also DOC files.
  • WMA/WMF/MP3 don't even show up in the top 20.
  • 37% of files were modified less than 2 years ago.
  • 19% of files were modified less than 1 year ago.
Now HERE we could use a last-modified HSM solution. With 840GB (ish) of data on the volume, we could get some serious savings.

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