Dedupe seemed more interesting when storage was expensive, but nowadays it feels like the overhead you get from running dedupe, in most cases, is priced-in. At

Dedupe seemed more interesting when storage was expensive, but nowadays it feels like the overhead you get from running dedupe, in most cases, is priced-in. At least with software like CommVault for backups, dedupe requires beefy hardware and low-latency SSDs for the database, If there is even a few extra milliseconds of latency or the server can’t handle requests fast enough, your backup throughput absolutely tanks. Depending on your data though you could see some ridiculous savings here that make it worth the trouble. I’ve heard many horror stories of dedupe related corruption or restoration woes though, especially after a ransomware attack.