The Dell Unity family of storage systems are feature-rich, easy-to-use, and deliver full Block and File unified environments starting in a single 2U enclosure. To help reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and increase the efficiency of a Dell Unity storage system, Dell Unity Compression was added in Dell UnityOS version 4.1 for Thin Block storage resources. Thin File storage resource support was added in Dell UnityOS version 4.2. In Dell UnityOS version 4.3, the Dell Unity Data Reduction feature replaces compression and provides more space savings logic to the system with the addition of zero block detection and deduplication. In Dell UnityOS version 4.5, Data Reduction includes an optional feature called Advanced Deduplication, which expands the deduplication capabilities of the Data Reduction algorithm. With data reduction, the amount of space required to store a dataset for data reduction enabled storage resources is reduced when savings are achieved. This space savings reduces the amount of physical storage required to store a dataset, which can lead to cost savings. Data reduction savings are not only achieved on the storage resource it is enabled on, but space savings are also realized on Snapshots and Thin Clones of those resources as well. Snapshots and Thin Clones inherit the data reduction setting of the source storage resource, which helps to increase the space savings that they can provide.