Data handling capabilities of the deduplication hardware or software maintain a database of hash values – if more than one file is detected having the same hash as the other, the second and later copies of the file will be deleted and replaced with a ‘flag’ or pointer that refers to the original file, with the original hash value.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Data Deduplication – Part 2 – Approaches
Tagged with: data backup, data deduplication, data storage, deduplication, duplicate files, hard drives, hash values
Posted in Hard Drive
Posted in Hard Drive
Data Deduplication Pt 1 – The Problem
Organizations – and even many individuals – wind up with duplicate files on their computer disks. In just a few words, what is happening is that exact duplicates are saved – often again and again.
Tagged with: deduplicate files, deduplication, duplicate files, hard disk drives, hard drives
Posted in Hard Drive
Posted in Hard Drive
Archiving Blu-ray and Other Optical Discs
The Blu-ray disc, by virtue of its high capacities (up to 50 GB per disc) today, and future capacities as high as 128 GB make it an ideal medium for archival storage of all types of data.
Tagged with: archival disc, archival storage, Blu-ray, Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray media, data archiving, optical discs, optical media
Posted in DVD CD Blu-ray Disc
Posted in DVD CD Blu-ray Disc
Storing and Handling Optical Media
Many users of optical media learned many years ago about some of the right – and wrong – ways to handle their CDs. Here are guidelines to extend the useful life of your discs.
Tagged with: Aleratec, Blu-ray, disc care, disc repair, disc storage, DVD CD, optical discs, optical media
Posted in DVD CD Blu-ray Disc
Posted in DVD CD Blu-ray Disc
