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omlette_brother
Oct 10, 2005Aspirant
Single Instance Storage (Block level deduplication)
First post, and a new user :D Chuffed to bits with my X6 so far... I've migrated all my data from my W2K3 Server. I have had the benefit of Single Instance Storage as the server also hosted RIS to...
Xipper
Oct 11, 2005Aspirant
I'm not sure how you would even go about creating such a service on a storage device. The problem is how do you determine when files are non-unique? md5 isn't accurate enough, file name isn't accurate enough, size is not applicable. It starts to become something that is far more resource intensive, just try running noclone, dedupe or any other software on a PC that is supposed to find duplicate files for you. Its a lot to expect of a system that is optimized to read and write files, not file contents.
I don't believe I have ever come across an enterprise storage system that supports single instance, I'm not aware of many applications that even support this outside of Exchange.
I don't believe I have ever come across an enterprise storage system that supports single instance, I'm not aware of many applications that even support this outside of Exchange.
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