Printer Nazi cum Server Nazi

Sigh.

Server Nazi, you make me upset. Your powers of control over the printer were not enough for you, and you are now attempting to increase your range to the company fileserver/email server.

Unfortunately for me, you deem me some kind of technological whiz, so I get to field lots of questions and commentary from you, and this makes my brain hurt.

For instance, I did not enjoy the conversation we just had about how "when the bytes get to 140 our IT guy said that's 'breakdown time' and people need to start cleaning stuff out."

I think what this means is, when the size of our backup data set reaches approximately 140GB the server hard drive is uncomfortably full.

But unfortunately, by telling you that this is "breakdown time" the IT guy has given you ammunition you really didn't need as you were already happy to pester people about "cleaning stuff out" on the fileserver and in their email.

Besides the obviously annoying parts of this whole debacle, my real point is this:

Storage is cheap.

If we keep running out of room on the hard drive of the server the solution is not to keep telling people to "clean out" their files, possibly deleting stuff they would rather not or that they may need, the solution is just to get a bigger hard drive. Please, for the love of God. I mean honestly, when we have significantly more file storage in our apartment than our company has in the office, I think there's cause for concern.

In other words, if we can afford a terabyte external drive for backup at home, I'm pretty sure the company can spring for a larger hard drive (or even multiples!) for the server. Larger than 300GB that is.