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11.10 Chunking
Chunked storage can provide significant performance benefits
- Allows efficient access to multidimensional data along multiple
axes
- Compression applies separately to each chunk
- Can improve I/O performance for large arrays and compressed
variables
- Default chunking parameters based on size of one in each
unlimited dimension
- Variables may be chunked independently and explicitly
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