101 · Question #424
For a typical business, what percentage of data does the ARX usually move to a secondary tier?
The correct answer is C. 80-90%. In a typical enterprise, the vast majority of stored data is inactive or infrequently accessed, making it a candidate for automated tiering to lower-cost secondary storage.
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For a typical business, what percentage of data does the ARX usually move to a secondary tier?
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- A20-30%
- B50-60%
- C80-90%
- D0-10%
How the community answered
(35 responses)- B3% (1)
- C91% (32)
- D6% (2)
Why each option
In a typical enterprise, the vast majority of stored data is inactive or infrequently accessed, making it a candidate for automated tiering to lower-cost secondary storage.
20-30% is too low an estimate and does not reflect the typical ratio of inactive to active data found in enterprise environments.
50-60% understates the actual proportion of cold data that ARX typically identifies and migrates in production deployments.
Studies and F5 ARX field data consistently show that roughly 80-90% of enterprise file data is cold or inactive - it has not been accessed in months or years. The ARX leverages this by transparently migrating this large proportion of data to secondary storage tiers, reducing primary storage costs without disrupting user access.
0-10% would imply nearly all data is active, which contradicts the core premise of intelligent tiering and the business case for ARX.
Concept tested: ARX data tiering percentage for secondary storage
Source: https://support.f5.com/csp/knowledge-center/software/ARX
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