Well put. I like to say compression is just short range dedupe. Hash based dedupe wouldn't be needed if you could just to real-time LZMA on all of the data on a

Well put. I like to say compression is just short range dedupe. Hash based dedupe wouldn't be needed if you could just to real-time LZMA on all of the data on a storage array but that just isn't feasible and hash-based dedupe is a very effective compromise.