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Microsoft’s File Deduplication works really well. But I think they only enable it in Windows Server because it would truly cut PC profits in half if people didn
by doctorpangloss 2y ago
Microsoft’s File Deduplication works really well. But I think they only enable it in Windows Server because it would truly cut PC profits in half if people didn’t run out of storage all the time.
- sheepdestroyer 2y agoBut Microsoft does not sell local storage?
- mrguyorama 2y agoNormal People do not run out of storage on their PCs. What data do you think normal people even have? Everything is streamed. My girlfriend has kept everything that has ever mattered to her for 15 years now, including two college degrees worth of class material, in the free tier of OneDrive, like a few gigs maybe. Her largest digital asset is a gig of mp3s that are a copy of the Harry Potter audiobooks. Even that is "streamed" from my google drive. Even getting her into the hobby of "collecting steam games" hasn't put pressure on her 500gb hard drive, because she doesn't play modern AAA games. People run out of storage on their phone from taking Video and Pictures but they don't ever copy those over to their PCs, if they even have PCs, they just buy more cloud storage space from Apple.
- floam 2y agoAnd common ways of filling up your storage, like big photo or music libraries, are unlikely to have many dupes.
- doctorpangloss 2y ago> Normal People do not run out of storage on their PCs... My girlfriend... Normal people run out of storage on their 128GB SSD macOS devices all the time.