wrote:
Thanks Bill... wouldnt reducing the amount of storage have an impact on
the cost of managing that storage?

Maybe, maybe not. And if it did, there are certainly some ways of
reducing the amount of required storage that would *increase* the
absolute cost of managing it.

So it's arguably better to concentrate on reducing the larger cost
(managing storage) and let the (often far lower) hardware cost fall
where it may.

- bill