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Compress Drive?

  • 26-09-2004 4:03pm
    #1
    Alkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,908 ✭✭✭


    Starting to get close to filling up my HDD. Just wondering is this worthwhile or will the computer get any slower?


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  • #2
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    Using what method? Regardless of the method you use it will give you more space at the expense of CPU time.


  • #3
    Alkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,908 ✭✭✭Alkers


    When you open the properties of the HDD there is a "compress drive to save disk-space" option. Any idea of how performance affecting it would be.


  • #4
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    It wouldn't affect he overall performance of the pc but it will be slower to access any of the compressed files.


  • #5
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Compression makes your PC slower and makes it harder to recover data in the event of a problem. The fact that your disk is filling up, also makes your PC slower. Best solution is to replace it with a newer faster, bigger drive. Then use the current one as a backup drive in the PC or put it into an external box.


  • #6
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Ciaran500 wrote:
    It wouldn't affect he overall performance of the pc but it will be slower to access any of the compressed files.

    Thats not logical. File access is part of the overall performance.


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  • #7
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    It perfectly logical. Normally windows advises you to compress rarely used files, so it will not affect day to day performance.


    Compression does not make your disk slower, just the files it compresses. But I would advise buying another HDD instead of compressing the files.

    Or mabye a format :-O


  • #8
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Ciaran500 wrote:
    It perfectly logical. Normally windows advises you to compress rarely used files, so it will not affect day to day performance.


    Compression does not make your disk slower, just the files it compresses. But I would advise buying another HDD instead of compressing the files.

    Or mabye a format :-O


    I've never been prompted to compress a drive. But then I never let it get that full, since a drive with little free space reduces performance of the computer considerably.

    Shes talking about compressing the whole drive not some of the files. The physical speed of the drive is not relevent really is it? It WILL take longer to access, read and write to a compressed disk than an uncompressed one. So it will degrade the performance of the PC.


  • #9
    StRiKeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭StRiKeR


    compress your drive will slow down your system performance no doubt


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