Less is always an advantage - alt.adrianshort →

Rather than trying to accommodate what we’ve got, we should work the other way. Find the threshold that makes sense for you, that you’ve got the time to maintain, that you can afford and that creates an acceptable amount of work and complication for you.

A wonderful way to think about the concept of enough and applying it to the data we care about. Read the whole thing because he comes at it from an angle that appeals to me. That being, how easy it is to back up and “spread around”.