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How Does Dropbox Store Data?

July 11, 2011 By Stephen 13 Comments

Dropbox recently clarified (via their blog and privacy policy) that they "de-duplicate" user files. This has been known for quite a while, and is obvious to anyone who's had a large file "upload" instantly. But how exactly does Dropbox store files? Are they really de-duplicated or just single-instanced? I set out to discover the answer. Single Instance Storage It's fairly … [Read more...] about How Does Dropbox Store Data?

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