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'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

See for example the storage systems from Vast or Pure. You can increase window size for compression and dedup far smaller blocks. Fast random IO also allows you to do that ”online” in the background. In the case of Vast, you also have multiple readers on the same SSD doing that compression and dedup.

So the feature isn’t that special. What you can do with it in practice changes drastically.