Dedupe and profiles

[robjduk]

Evening,

Deduplication in 2012 is amazing however I have purposely left it off on the hard drive holding my user's profiles. No doubt there is a lot to be saved here but figured files which are due to be accessed a lot during the day should not be messed with. Has anyone had experience having deduplication on their profile location or do you think I am wise to leave it well alone. Profile corruptions have been a pain in the past so don't want to cause any more issues with them.

[localzuk]

Running dedupe on a profile drive shouldn't cause an issue - it isn't "active" dedupe - it runs on a schedule that you determine.

 

Also, theoretically, dedupe should speed up profile access - the files would be less "spread out" over the disk, as multiple requests for the same block will go to one place rather than multiple places across the disk.

[Matthew1985]

We've had it enabled on the drive that holds our profile for over 6 months now and it's never caused a problem. Go for it.

[xenonive]

Not been issue here and I'm getting rate of 77% at moment