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Dedupe is an inline process that uses the same data reduction hardware as compression. All data reduction enabled incoming data is passed through data reduction hardware. In a single pass, the data reduction hardware handles compression, pattern detection and generates a hash ID for deduplication. This produces compressed data with a unique hash ID. Leveraging data reduction hardware for this process allows system resources to be focused on host I/O and other system operations.