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So I'm thinking Deduplication on drive will be the big thing here. Think XFS or ReFS block cloning but without server side processing.

• marshray 6y ago
  The compute-intensive part of that task is the hashing function, for which common CPU extensions are cheaply available.
  • Severian 6y ago
    Indeed, but not always the implementation. Microsoft's ReFS has had several patches due to issues involving memory usage and general performance.