Hi,
Just like to ask a question about StarWind iSCSI dedup.
Which of the 2 below dedup better, as in give the max amount of storage savings
1) one very large file, say 20GB, be it a doc, zip, iso, pdf or mp3
2) a bunch of small files, say about 20 - 1GB file, be it the same type as above
note-1) knowing that this is a technical question, let me say for a large file, I created a ISO file with all of windows os.
windows 8.1 core,pro,ent
windows 8.0 all
windows 7 all
windows server 2008 R2 all
windows server 2012 all
windows server 2012 R2 all
hyper-v 2012 r2
There are free software that allows you to do this. Now all those OS are now in one big iso file, with about 18 are so single os option to select and install.
note-2) using the info from above, say we extract each of those 18 plus option to each a file on its own, we will have a directory it say 18 or more iso files.
note-1a) the same can be done using pdf. I did it once using my outlook, I had about 200 or so emails that I needed to send to someone I a did not want to print them and to pdf each email was out of the question, and most of them had attachments(one or more), so I use acrobat pro 10(at that time) to create a book-like-pdf with all 200 emails, it seems to keep all the email structure including time,date, etc....
but it was around 3GB, if I had use max compress maybe smaller.
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