DisK compression

[Samoa]

I was wondering. I have used NTFS for a while now. I like it. Does doing disk compression have any advatages to it? disadvatages to it?

I am currently running a partition with XP compressed I don't see any problems. I also do use it much.

[H1REN]

if you move a large Uncompressed file to Compressed (blue font) folder then it will take little time to compress.

Hiren.

[Samoa]

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if you move a large Uncompressed file to Compressed (blue font) folder then it will take little time to compress.

Thanks for the tip. :)

[danbalsh]

Unless your running of a very tiny Hard Disk, i would not reccomed compressing your system files, only your personal files.

That is unless your running a 2ghz monster :p but if you are, i presume you've got a big hard drive.

[morganpugh84]

Don't ever enable compression on your system drive (if it is even possible, dont think it is). If you do enable compression manually compress files you dont use much. If it is personal it is better to encrypt it. Compressing a file makes loading it a little slow but with computers these days you wont notice. The compression isnt that good, not as good as WinRAR so if you want to save space RAR up the files/folders and create a solid archive. that will save you more space.

[Samoa]

danbalsh and jkuy9,

Your points are interesting. BTW I have that crappy computer hooked up to my real machine. Which has dual hard drives. 30gig each. I do have compressed my Windows XP on the first partition of the second drive. I haven't used that OS much, except to install programs. It seems to run OK. About as good as my main OS. I was just wondering if there were any disadvatages and advatages to enabling that option to compress the drive. XP allows this to occur.