Information Overload

What’s the problem with the Mars Spirit Rover? Too much info:

Spirit’s science operations halted just as it crawled to the pointy rock and was about to begin drilling into it. The rover’s computer rebooted itself more than 100 times over a two-day period and, at first, sent back beeps but no data. Engineers have since determined that the problem appears to involve too many files overloading the onboard computer memory.

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