Understanding the different storage types

The storage used by your application records contributes to the most important part of the overall data storage allocation on the platform. There is also another type of storage used by the files uploaded or created on the platform. From the Storage Usage page under the Setup menu, you can see a summary of the records used, including those that reside in the Salesforce Standard Objects.

Note

Later in this chapter, we will be creating a Custom Metadata Type object to store configuration data. Storage consumed by this type of object is not reflected on the Storage Usage page and is managed and limited in a different way.

Tip

The preceding page also shows which users are using the most amount of storage. In addition to the individual's User Details page, you can also locate the Used Data Space and Used File Space fields; next to these are the links to view the users' data and file storage usage.

The limit shown for each is based on a calculation between...