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When Should I Not Consider Enabling Compression and/or Deduplication?

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Some examples of when not to use deduplication on a volume include:

  • Savings less than the amount of deduplication metadata,
  • Data is being overwritten at a rapid rate.

Some examples of when not to use compression on a volume include:

  • Large number of small overwrites of a file (typically if overwrite is <32KB),
  • Majority of files are 8KB or less,
  • Savings less than the amount of deduplication metadata,
  • Highly latency sensitive applications (validate performance with testing to see if acceptable or not).

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