It might be used for reporting some day but the day to day business wouldn't suffer if it was deleted. The more records in a file are going to make searches and sorts a little slower. If a file crashes, extra records are going to make the rebuild process slower. This is very noticeable when you get up to tens of thousands of records. Relationships will even work slower because they have to evaluate more records before they can work properly.
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