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by trotsky 5385 days ago
the biggest win by far is media files and other large assets like game files or large data sets that many, many people will have duplicate copies of. Even with a pretty low installed base 98%-100% of people's iTunes storage will be deduped. OS files are a big win too, really very very little (by block volume) on most people's drives is unique.