, AndyC wrote

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SS is pretty much a complete replacement for the really, really expensive software that typically front-ends SAN installations. Being able to do this directly within Windows in a generic and fairly standard way could prove immensely useful in all manner of situations. It also pitches Windows fileservers as a genuine replacement for SAN front-end filers like NetApp, especially given that you get de-dupe for free.

I've not really been following SS, but do you know if the de-dup works on files inside VHDs?