What's it all about, Alfie?

I have to laugh at the Corporate Folks that administer almost every network I've come in contact with. They treat disk space as if it were gold - each user gets a quota that's smaller than even the smallest easily available hard drives, and then adding extra space is considered to be the last resport as opposed to the first thing to do. I can't imagine why they don't proactively add disk space to file and database servers just to make sure that no matter what's needed, there's space available.

Yes, this adds cost. I know, I've bought lots of drives, and owned a company where I had to watch every penny, but that's no excuse - I still never ran into the lack of disk space that I've seen in every "big" organization I've been a part of. It's just ridiculous. People use their machine's local drives because the quotas on the file servers are too small to allow them to really function. This means critical data isn't backed up, and the risk exposure is greater than anyone seems to want to believe.

Oh well... I can only do what I can do... I believe in having lots of free disk space, and I do. I think my fullest machine may be up to 50%, but that's it. Most are below 25%. Yes, I could have purchased less, but with the costs being so cheap, the incremental cost is so low, it just doesn't make good sense.

So I deal with database servers that crash because they can't find the local disk space for their files, and queries don't run because of insufficient log space... it's a waste of my time, and the company is paying a lot more for my time than they would for a new disk or two... Penny wise, Pound foolish...