PowerStore offers powerful data efficiency techniques which help reduce the amount of storage that is required to store datasets for the various resources within the system. Through the always-on features of thin resources, deduplication, compression, and the intuitive management of data that is written within the storage of the system, PowerStore uses its space as efficiently as possible. By reducing the amount of storage needed to store a dataset, data efficiency techniques help to further reduce the total cost of ownership of a solution.