"Data will always expand to the capacity of your drive space."
I know it happens to me all the time. I buy a drive and it gets full so I buy one 3 times bigger and it seems to get full almost instantly. How's that? I think the reason for me is when I have lots of space I delete less so it quickly fills up.
In the corporate world the same is true but it's an even bigger problem. When drive space is short systems get purged. If you know you have tons of room people decide not to purge. I know people who want to keep their trash permanently and get really upset when the system deletes the contents of the trash. I have no idea why people keep important documents in the trash.
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