It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.
If anything, it's the opposite of a dark pattern: you get to see if it'll provide any value for you without paying a dime. It's a far better proposition than paying up only to find out that it won't free up any space for you. The linked site is very clear about how the pricing works.
I think the record for most space saved by this utility in a single run is in the <i>hundreds of TBs</i> now. I’ll see if I can find the toot.<p>Edit: maybe a bit hyperbolic of me, looks like it was 3.94TB
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Nice I was just thinking about this the other day! Given the memory supply issue today, I wonder how much of data in our data centers worldwide is essentially just copied data? I have a feeling that there is a ton of redundancy, much of it absolutely necessary, but much of it essentially not at all, and howmuc memory we can reclaim by culling copies
How does this compare to diskDedupe, which has been around longer and is much cheaper?
Seems useful for s3 buckets. I suppose a script that watches for new objects, calculates its sha256 and stores that in a DB, then checks for duplicate hashes would be a fairly trivial task. Though s3 doesn’t support symbolic links so accounting would need to be handled by server side code.
How does it compare to <a href="https://diskdedupe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://diskdedupe.com/</a>?