The storage pertaining to the platform of Salesforce CRM is essentially divided into two sections – File Storage and Data Storage.
Salesforce file storage includes all the files pertaining to the Chatter platform, the files in attachments, Files home, custom File field, assets regarding Site.com, the tab of Documents and all of the Salesforce CRM content.
For every business organisation implementing Salesforce, the Salesforce file storage limits pertaining to the Enterprise, Professional, Performance, Group, Contact Manager and Unlimited editions are set to 10 GB. However, the Salesforce Essentials edition has the file storage limit of 1 GB.
Additional Salesforce file storage is allocated to a business organisation based on the number of standard user licenses owned by the firm in the following manner:
For the Performance, Enterprise and Unlimited editions, a business organisation is allocated additional 2 GB of file storage for every user license.
For the Group, Professional and Contact Manager Editions, a business organisation is allocated additional 612 MB of file storage for every user license.
Majority of the CRM activities are carried out using the data storage pertaining to Salesforce. Salesforce data storage includes the following components:
Contacts
Accounts
Cases
Campaigns
Leads
Opportunities
Lists
Custom objects
Solutions
Tasks
Tags
Article types
Article translations
Case teams
Campaign members
Contracts
Email messages
Forecast items
Events
Ideas
Notes
Google docs
Orders
Quotes
Quote templates
All Salesforce objects related to Field Service Lightning enablement
The platform of Salesforce makes use of both files storage and data storage for carrying out important business processes pertaining to marketing and sales according to the specific client requirements.