Compress Files To Save Disk Space
I've always had this checked.
I have only disk C...no partition.
WinXP Home sp2.
File System NTFS.
I'm just curios as to if this is the best option? I can't complain about performance, but I'm just wondering is unchecking the option might give a boost in performance?
Roo
steve40 posted this at 12:12 — 3rd June 2006.
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Compressing files on NTSF, does not do as much good as on fat32. NTSF is going to use two sectors regardless, as long as the file is one byte over one sector. Yes NTFS does have sectors.
I have never had good results with compressing disk space, I just get a bigger drive.
Compressing files could not speed up your drive, as they have to be de-compressed to load. That could really not be any faster, than having to gather them up from the disk as usual.
My bad experience with file compression was loosing program DLL's. I would try non-compression, and see how I liked it. But you wont like the decompression routine, it takes a while ---- a long while.
Roo posted this at 18:37 — 3rd June 2006.
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Yeah I did decompress. As far as the .dlls, that wasn't affected since I kept getting messages that a lot of them could not be decompressed.
My drive is big enough so I don't have to worry about that, I do see a bit of an increase in speed, not mind blowing, but some.
Roo
demonhale posted this at 04:02 — 4th June 2006.
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Its a good way to save "some" amount of space that way, but to actually speed up, the easiest and cheapest method I can think of is to increase your RAM, you will see immediate difference. Also when you have more than 128, locking the page file value to a specific number would also increase your speed.
Additional tip that you can also try is to change the default "desktop PC" assignment to your properties to "server", you will actually notice things speed up... Many more if you ask me... Lol!
steve40 posted this at 10:06 — 4th June 2006.
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That's the way mine is setup, as a network server. I also actually operate off of a AMD server board. But what it does, is to add more file read ahead. Sort of like having the files cashed up before you get there.
Well that is what it does.
Serfaksan posted this at 04:14 — 19th June 2006.
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well something that I found, I have a 160gb harddrive, when I had the windows xp sp2 pro, my freespace was 127gb, but when I changed to windows media center edition, it was still on NTSF but now I have 158 gb of freespace, and my pc works faster
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