# Data Cleanup Plan - Update **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [April 8, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737 "2025-04-08T21:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brandon](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brandon/32/1128_2.png) [@brandon](https://forum.storj.io/u/brandon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/1 "2025-04-08T21:07:20Z")
# Data Cleanup Plan - Update * * * Hey Node Operators and Community Members, We’re excited to share an update on the data cleanup plan we announced on January 25th, 2025 ([Data Cleanup Plan](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan/29123)). We’ve successfully removed the majority of data from accounts with outstanding bills and terms of service violations across the global network. The results have been significant: ![Screenshot 2025-04-08 at 5.23.35 PM](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/9/5/9536816175aa060392210de76eee0947c5b47f7e.png) Data stored on global network (i.e. not including data stored on Storj Select) from January 1, 2025, to April 5th, 2025 * * * At the beginning of the year, 84.40% of data stored on our global network was from paying customers. Today, that figure has increased to 95.25% - a substantial improvement that directly benefits our cost of goods sold (COGS) as well as our ability to continue to serve our customers. Additionally, this data shows that, despite some ups and downs, we have tried to be thoughtful about this process in order to keep the total data stored on the network (and therefore the amount of compensation being paid to SNOs) roughly flat since January in an attempt to minimize the economic impact of this cleanup on the community. Of course individual nodes may have had more dramatic swings depending on if they were storing some of the “Unpaid data” or not, and whether they received new “Paid data” or not. Another important takeaway from this chart to highlight is that we have seen consistent and dramatic growth of our paid data since the beginning of 2025. From Jan 1st to April 5th the amount of paid data stored on the global network increased by 25.70%. Looking ahead, we anticipate continued growth in total data stored as we onboard new customers and expand relationships with existing ones. Thank you for your continued support and patience during this cleanup process. The improved network efficiency benefits our entire ecosystem. ---
**Author:** ![brandon](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brandon/32/1128_2.png) [@brandon](https://forum.storj.io/u/brandon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/2 "2025-04-08T21:09:17Z")
The initial announcement can be found here: [Data Cleanup Plan](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan/29123/1) ---
**Author:** ![brandon](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/brandon/32/1128_2.png) [@brandon](https://forum.storj.io/u/brandon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/4 "2025-04-08T21:26:13Z")
Yes, sorry for the confusion. I had the labels backwards, I have updated the screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![Ottetal](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/ottetal/32/18876_2.png) [@Ottetal](https://forum.storj.io/u/Ottetal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/5 "2025-04-08T21:40:56Z")
This is a FAKIN AMAZING post. Cheers my friend :)) ---
**Author:** ![PieceKeeper](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/piecekeeper/32/1125_2.png) [@PieceKeeper](https://forum.storj.io/u/PieceKeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/6 "2025-04-08T22:00:28Z")
That is one beautiful graph 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/7 "2025-04-09T02:21:51Z")
> [@brandon](#): > > At the beginning of the year, 84.40% of data stored on our global network was from paying customers. Today, that figure has increased to 95.25% So the remaining 5% is probably coming from trial users then? if that’s the case it would not be bad to see lots of unpaid data again. ---
**Author:** ![MarviBiene](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/marvibiene/32/1124_2.png) [@MarviBiene](https://forum.storj.io/u/MarviBiene)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/8 "2025-04-09T03:33:20Z")
Is the big decrease of unpaid data in February from the EU1 cleanup process announced in January? Thank you very much for this information. I am hopeful to see increasing storage usage in the future soon™ ---
**Author:** ![snorkel](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/snorkel/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@snorkel](https://forum.storj.io/u/snorkel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/9 "2025-04-09T04:55:01Z")
I hope this puts an end to all speculations and accusations about bad adoption and Storj team not doing enough, even though some of us, SNOs were posting optimistic messages with proofs. There’s nothing like a good ol’ official post. 😎👍🏽 It would be interesting to see some labels on the Y axis too, but I guess the official position is to not disclose it, so no problems. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/10 "2025-04-09T07:05:15Z")
I think you may take it from the [https://storjstats.info/](https://storjstats.info/) or from the source: [https://stats.storjshare.io](https://stats.storjshare.io), since it’s now fixed: > [@Notice: Public API Downtime (statistics data)](https://forum.storj.io/t/notice-public-api-downtime-statistics-data/29660/3): > > Hey everyone, our public stats API is back up and running! tada Thanks so much for your patience while we resolved the issues. If you encounter any unexpected behavior, please let us know. Upcoming Change: Next week, we’ll be renaming the metric storage\_remote\_segments\_lost to storage\_remote\_segments\_unavailable to better reflect its technical meaning (and avoid unnecessary alarm). This is a naming change only—no functional impact. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/11 "2025-04-09T09:27:40Z")
> [@jammerdan](#): > > So the remaining 5% is probably coming from trial users then? Yes it is free trial data. I have raised the question today why it is not getting cleaned up. Most of it is already expired and could get cleaned up. The issue is that these free trial users might still be a member of a paid project. This makes the cleanup a bit more tricky. We would have to delete the data without closing the account. They should still be allowed to interact with the shared paid project. ---
**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/12 "2025-04-09T09:34:16Z")
> [@MarviBiene](#): > > Is the big decrease of unpaid data in February from the EU1 cleanup process announced in January? It was not limited to EU1. The cleanup removed data from all 3 satellites. ---
**Author:** ![EasyRhino](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/easyrhino/32/1133_2.png) [@EasyRhino](https://forum.storj.io/u/EasyRhino)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/13 "2025-04-10T22:07:43Z")
this update and graph is lovely. _it would have been nice to see other information like this during other cleanup steps_ a picture really is worth a thousand words in this case. ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/14 "2025-04-11T03:58:49Z")
> [@snorkel](#): > > I hope this puts an end to all speculations and accusations about bad adoption and Storj team not doing enough, even though some of us, SNOs were posting optimistic messages with proofs. Even according to the posted graph there is still way to go to meet old heights in terms of data stored. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/15 "2025-04-11T06:29:51Z")
I wouldn’t expect it to be very often. > [@jammerdan](#): > > Even according to the posted graph there is still way to go to meet old heights in terms of data stored. … for free. ---
**Author:** ![ACarneiro](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/acarneiro/32/1129_2.png) [@ACarneiro](https://forum.storj.io/u/ACarneiro)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/16 "2025-04-12T08:30:29Z")
> [@Alexey](#): > > … for free. That was a Storj problem, not an SNO problem though… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/17 "2025-04-12T08:42:16Z")
You are partially correct. We are in the same boat ⛵ ---
**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/18 "2025-04-14T06:21:10Z")
> [@brandon](#): > > We’ve successfully removed the majority of data from accounts with outstanding bills and terms of service violations across the global network. My overall data is still showing significant deletions, which are effectively reducing the total amount of stored data instead of retaining or increasing it. ![Screenshot_2025-04-14_080421](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/f/f/ffdbbf5b14b4e5f22634de8b776a76e07efe8792.png) According to the chart, the utilized space appears to only increase when the Bloom filters are paused. ---
**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/19 "2025-04-14T06:32:59Z")
But storj still deleting data. ---
**Author:** ![Solu](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/solu/32/62_2.png) [@Solu](https://forum.storj.io/u/Solu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/21 "2025-04-23T20:46:29Z")
This is most probably because there is still some unpaid data left? ---
**Author:** ![nyancodex](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/nyancodex/32/1129_2.png) [@nyancodex](https://forum.storj.io/u/nyancodex)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737/22 "2025-04-26T17:44:26Z")
still no growth, nodes only shinking day by day [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/data-cleanup-plan-update/29737.md?page=2)