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Our current disk usage patterns are not viable going into the future. We have not budgeted enough money to buy disk at the rate we are using it. We (at least I) have blithely postulated in the past that we would find a magic bullet cut to "permanently" removed remove a large fraction of the downlinked data - which is ~>95% background. So far we have not done so, and there are no good ideas on how to yet.
Objective
I think our goal should be to have space for at least 2-3 copies of the data at any given time, and sufficient for a reasonable amount of MC.
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