# Huge amount of trash data? **URL:** \ **Category:** troubleshooting\ **Tags:** trash\ **Created:** [May 12, 2024, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168 "2024-05-12T09:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Teclox](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/teclox/32/1135_2.png) [@Teclox](https://forum.storj.io/u/Teclox)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/1 "2024-05-12T09:28:13Z")
Hi guys, i have about 700 Gb of trash data, how is this possible? Didn’t seem to lower itself over time. is something wrong with my node? ---
**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/2 "2024-05-12T09:44:08Z")
I also have lot of trash last several days, so i think it is deletion ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/3 "2024-05-12T10:48:15Z")
See > [@Updates on Test Data](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034): > > Hello Storj Community, We are excited to announce some changes that we have begun to implement regarding how we are using test data on the network! What is changing We are currently seeing exponential growth in our paid customer data and expect that trend to continue based on our sales pipeline. Because of this we want to ensure that we are sending timely demand signals to the node community so that the capacity and other resources we need for our growing customer base is available when they … ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/4 "2024-05-12T11:21:15Z")
Yeah this is normal: with a larger deletion on the 6th and a smaller one yesterday a lot of data has headed to the trash in the last week. Actually looking at just the last week… with so many deletes combined with ingress… my guess is the _average_ node (whatever that means) is growing at about 200GB/month net these days? If it may take months to flush out the forever-free data perhaps that will be our normal rate this summer? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/5 "2024-05-12T11:26:03Z")
I hope so. If we can onboard these customers, then we all will have a busy time! So, lets make our nodes incredible fast! ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/6 "2024-05-12T15:26:44Z")
10 nodes standing by for action, Sir! 🫡 ---
**Author:** ![agente](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/agente/32/1137_2.png) [@agente](https://forum.storj.io/u/agente)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/7 "2024-05-12T18:07:12Z")
> [@Roxor](#): > > Actually looking at just the last week… with so many deletes combined with ingress… my guess is the _average_ node (whatever that means) is growing at about 200GB/month net these days? someone have a node with more than 13/15tb of paid data? not including trash of course. I think today that is the balance where you cannot move higher… ---
**Author:** ![donald.m.motsinger](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/donald.m.motsinger/32/71_2.png) [@donald.m.motsinger](https://forum.storj.io/u/donald.m.motsinger)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/8 "2024-05-12T21:00:02Z")
Does the dashboard say 700GB or did you check the real disk usage? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/9 "2024-05-12T23:02:16Z")
I restarted all my nodes manually and my trash sunk from like 700gb to like a bit under 400gb ---
**Author:** ![d4rk4](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/d4rk4/32/68_2.png) [@d4rk4](https://forum.storj.io/u/d4rk4)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/10 "2024-05-13T04:14:45Z")
![image](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/3/1/31c4af9c10c068e81750447a069b925edbd2578f.png) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2024, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/11 "2024-05-13T07:15:35Z")
Yeah, the items in the trash folder marked for deletion but you yet deleted will be reevaluated at reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Tempest](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/tempest/32/1125_2.png) [@Tempest](https://forum.storj.io/u/Tempest)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/12 "2024-05-17T03:09:53Z")
ummm my week one node now showing 7 TB of trash…yes that’s terabytes. 9TB used now, there goes a good chunk of my income, what gives. ---
**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/13 "2024-05-17T03:38:20Z")
Looks like storj Deleted most of saltlake test data. ---
**Author:** ![donald.m.motsinger](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/donald.m.motsinger/32/71_2.png) [@donald.m.motsinger](https://forum.storj.io/u/donald.m.motsinger)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/14 "2024-05-17T09:27:36Z")
So it’s not only me. I lost \>20% of all data across all my nodes yesterday. My oldest node lost even \>55%. Wow ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/15 "2024-05-17T09:30:09Z")
Yep, my oldest node lost nearly 2TB overnight. Hopefully it’ll fill up again soon 🙂 I’ve learned not to be upset with trash. It is what it is, some stuff comes, some stuff goes. 🤷🏻‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Mitsos](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/mitsos/32/1125_2.png) [@Mitsos](https://forum.storj.io/u/Mitsos)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/16 "2024-05-17T10:19:09Z")
For anyone interested, these are the graphs (my own monitoring, nothing to do with storj except displaying the data as exported by satellites). ![Screenshot_20240517_131640](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/2/0/203559adc4f0aaa41c24c4abbdc2e13752fab2d5.jpeg) US1 no data for the current month (graph empty, no point in showing) ![Screenshot_20240517_131749](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/5/4/54949e959b50379e59accd517622a1817241218d.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20240517_131835](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/1/1/111ff23be142b275369f20169e26bc77644846ee.jpeg) Testing = Saltlake ---
**Author:** ![Mitsos](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/mitsos/32/1125_2.png) [@Mitsos](https://forum.storj.io/u/Mitsos)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/18 "2024-05-17T10:23:56Z")
I like my graphs having scales and time filtering 😄 ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/19 "2024-05-17T10:24:14Z")
It always makes it look like Storj is much more popular in Europe than the US. I wonder why that is? ---
**Author:** ![Roxor](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roxor/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roxor](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roxor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/20 "2024-05-17T12:40:00Z")
I don’t know what I should expect to see: the [forever-free announcement](https://forum.storj.io/t/discontinuation-of-the-storj-free-tier/25332) said “_…This means that for several months, for the overall network, we anticipate that the total amount of data should remain relatively constant and SNO payouts should stay fairly stable…_” …but the [test-data announcement](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034) said: “_…In order to secure resources and to scale test, we have decided to begin to upload additional data to the SLC satellite essentially “reserving capacity” for our customer growth a few months before we anticipate it will arrive…_” The test-data info is more recent… so I _think_ we should expect overall use to go up. And historically test data was paid for… and I think the capacity-reservation data will be… but [performance-related test data will be unpaid](https://forum.storj.io/t/updates-on-test-data/26034/149)? So… I guess I’m expecting to see large amounts of trash to be taken out… but overall SLC should begin to shovel enough new testing data into the network to slowly cause it to still grow, and for SNOs most of that test data will be paid for. 🤞 ---
**Author:** ![JoshieGarza](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/joshiegarza/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@JoshieGarza](https://forum.storj.io/u/JoshieGarza)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168/21 "2024-05-17T13:57:17Z")
I have many many nodes looking like this overnight. 50% test data? ![imagen](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/4/f/4f23bf48b43c5e84932b9d3f7a41c4d1c05ab261.png) [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/huge-amount-of-trash-data/26168.md?page=2)