2.5 Data Reduction
Figure 3: Front View of a Scale System (Example)
2.4.3 Capacity of ETERNUS CS800 S6 Configurations
Name Disk
Size
Minimum
Capacity
Capacity
Increment steps
Maximum
Capacity
Entry 2 TB 8 TB 2 x 8 TB 24 TB
Entry with
JX40 S2 option
2 TB,
4 TB
8 TB 2 x 8 TB
6 x 16 TB
120 TB
Scale 4 TB 32 TB 32 TB 352 TB
Scale with Hot
Spare Disks
4 TB 32 TB 32 TB 320 TB
2.5 Data Reduction
Data reduction is the process of reducing the amount of storage capacity required to store
your data. The ETERNUS CS800 systems provide two techniques to optimize the storage
space required on your system:
l "Data Deduplication" on page 31
l "Compression" on page 31
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