The All Shares screen is mainly used as a navigational aid, though it does report interesting statistics about the files on the shares listed. Double-clicking the share in the grid will expose a set of reports for just that share allowing you to drill into the details. Each of the “day” fields shows the number of files on the share that were created or modified within that time period exclusive of earlier time periods. This gives you an idea on where your older, less used files are stored. As you review the details we’ll help you decide whether it might not make sense to move those files to a more inexpensive storage option like glacial cloud storage, or simply archiving the files and removing them from storage entirely.
Field Name |
What It Means |
|---|---|
Share Name |
The name of the share |
30 Day |
Number of files created or modified within the last 30 days |
90 Day |
Number of files created or modified within the last 30 to 90 days |
180 Day |
Number of files created or modified within the last 90 to 180 days |
365 Day |
Number of files created or modified within the last 180 to 365 days. At this point the files haven’t been used in 6 months. |
730 Day |
Number of files created or modified within the last year. At this point the files haven’t been used in a over a year. |
older |
Number of files created or modified more than two years ago. |
Large numbers in the last 3 columns likely mean you can move these files off your arrays to cloud, nearline or offline storage to free up space on your arrays.