Paid Storage Growth: Two views?

[jammerdan]

@Roxor

Maybe deletion of all the old forever-free data has been offset almost exactly by real customer uploads?

@Bryanm

As previously mentioned when we announced the discontinuation of the free tier , We have also already been removing old data from our production satellites composed mostly of old abandoned accounts as well as free tier accounts that were closed by users following the conversion to free trial on our production satellites. We plan to increase the rate at which we are doing this in order to transfer all non-paid data to the SLC satellite and clean up the production satellites. As a consequence of this, nodes will see an increase in the amount of garbage they are storing in the short term.

Maybe this is what we see in the Grafana chart like from April to June. Unfortunately the graph has so many glitches and there were so many errors in displaying correct numbers that it is hard to tell if the values are even correct. Some of the lower marks is showing as 15PB stored customer data I doubt we have been this low. But maybe the 23PB are correct. This would mean that we gained around 2 PB since then. However we really still don’t know how much and at what pace old data has been deleted or may still be getting deleted. I am also wondering where is the 10PB customer in that chart?