Upgrade StorageIs Zotero cloud storage redundant between users?
If two Zotero users save a snapshot of the same webpage, does Zotero make two copies in its master database, or does it recognize the redundancy?
I'm just generally curious about this. A few years ago Google launched a "Music" app that was meant to be storage for people's personal music collections, and I believe their strategy was to store only one copy (or a certain number of backups of course) of each unique mp3 so that millions of people could store the same data without wasting vast storage resources.
I was wondering about a scenario where Zotero (or likewise Evernote, Diigo, etc) was super popular and millions of people were saving their own copies of every webpage they read, making Zotero sort of a massively redundant copy of the internet.
I'm just generally curious about this. A few years ago Google launched a "Music" app that was meant to be storage for people's personal music collections, and I believe their strategy was to store only one copy (or a certain number of backups of course) of each unique mp3 so that millions of people could store the same data without wasting vast storage resources.
I was wondering about a scenario where Zotero (or likewise Evernote, Diigo, etc) was super popular and millions of people were saving their own copies of every webpage they read, making Zotero sort of a massively redundant copy of the internet.
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adamsmithZotero saves redundant copies, one for every user.
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dstillmanWebpages are stored separately, but individual files (e.g., PDFs) are stored only once, generally. Among other things, this makes uploading many files much quicker.
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