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When receiving a string of repeated characters or character strings, the received data is highly compressible, but typically compression is done by a file system prior to transmission to a storage device. A typical storage device cannot distinguish between compressed data and uncompressed data. The storage device may also receive a command to read the erased file so the storage device may transmit a stream of zeros, ones, or a null character to the requesting device. Again, bandwidth is required to transmit data representing the erased file.

Added by DJM 3 2021