free hard disk space

[Anonymous]

In a firm with 30+ cad users and on 322gb server how much disk space do you
think we should keep free at all time. Our projects range from 25-30 sheets
up to well over 500 sheets. All files are open and saved to the server, pdf
are saved there basically everything from marketing to cad to whatever.

Thanks,
John

[TravisNave]

Generally speaking, you should always keep at least 20% free at all time to extend the life and seek-time of your hard drive.

I would suggest once you are approaching 50% of capacity, that you add more disk space. 300GB of space is not very much at all, especially if you have document management software like SourceSafe or Vault. Furthermore, I hope your OS is not on the same RAID as your data.

[peter.ashby]

we regularly do a run through the server to remove .bak files that are older than a month ( set parameters by date and between 1 month and the earliest date you can think you would have .bak files for - we also do the search on .sv$ files - this way we can clear out 1Gb or more from the server. My decision was any .bak files older than a month were out of date anyway, for file failures older than that we use the backup tapes.