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New 25x Data Compression?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-sure-to-give-it-to-more-than-just-the-corporate-monkies dept.

modapi writes "StorageMojo is reporting that a company at Storage Networking World in San Diego has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital data storage. A combination of de-duplication and calculating and storing only the changes between similar byte streams is apparently the key. Imagine storing a terabyte of data on a single disk, and it all runs on Linux." Obviously nothing concrete or released yet so take with the requisite grain of salt.

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  1. 100X - 1000X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can easily achieve 25X compression with simple algorithms, but you need to keep cycling the output back through the input and the speed gets progressively worse. I've see 100X and even 1000X compression but it can take hours to achieve this. Concievably, it you had enough time on your hands to you get almost anysize file down to just a few dozen bytes, but since the compression speed increases exponentially, it just isn't worth it.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll
    That would have been:

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?