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A system of the present invention is also presented for managing data. The system includes a storage device, a storage controller that controls the storage device, a write request receiver module, and a data segment token storage module. The write request receiver module receives a storage request from a requesting device. The storage request includes a request to store a data segment in the storage device. The data segment includes a series of repeated, identical characters or a series of repeated, identical character strings. The data segment token storage module stores a data segment token in the storage device. The data segment token includes at least data segment identifier and a data segment length. The data segment token is substantially free of data from the data segment.

Added by DJM 3 2021