Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Datenfriedhof
English translation:
dead data
German term
Datenfriedhof
Although in quotation marks, the term "data graveyard" seems to be used by German sites only. Is there a corresponding term in English?
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Proposed translations
dead data
Your organization isn't facing an explosion of mission-critical data growth. Most of your storage infrastructure is managing "dead" data that's irrelevant to your organization's mission.
...a segment may contain live data, dead data, or a combination of live data and dead data. A segment which contains live data is referred to as a used segment.
12 years in finance & accounting
Native in: German 
Works in: English to German, German to English, French to German, and 1 more.
cemetry data / cemetry records
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Armorel Young
: isn't that Friedhofdaten, a different thing altogether from Datenfriedhof?
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Andras Malatinszky
: Armorel is correct -- this is something completely different.
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United States
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
data storage dead-ends, or dead-end data storage {locations}
International experience since 1979
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, Dutch to German
obsolete data
Native in: Hungarian 
Works in: Hungarian to English, English to Hungarian, German to English, and 2 more.
data junkyard
We want to encourage everyone in the environmental community to register on the portal, which is open and available for sharing information -- with only some minor oversight to ensure we don't become a data junkyard.
Quality legal / financial translation
Native in: English
Works in: German to English
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