'compress drive'

Discussion in 'Software' started by fiver22, Nov 2, 2002.

  1. fiver22

    fiver22 Sergeant

    If I bring up the properties of my C: drive it gives me the option of "Compress drive to Save dick space" -it is unchecked; and "Allow indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" -it is checked. -should I keep these settings?
    Any input would be appreciated.

    My PC Specs:
    -Windows XP Home(SP1)
    -Pentium 4 1800
    -512MB DDR
    -C: (NTFS) Western Digital HD 100G WD1000BB-32CAA0
    -A: 3.5"
    -D: LG CD-ROM CRD-8522B
    -E: ASUS CRW-1610A 16X10X40
    -Seanix Galiano 645 Motherboard
    -Creative SB Audigy
    -NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB
    ----Other Shite----
    ..NEC MultiSync LCD 1530V Monitor
    ..Logitech Marble Optical Mouse
    ..IBM Media Acces Pro Keyboard
     
  2. Strogg

    Strogg 5-Star Freakin' Geek

    compress = bad
    not sure about indexing, though. don't really use xp
     
  3. fiver22

    fiver22 Sergeant

    Thanks Strogg. No compression for me then. Anyone else on indexing? -or does anyone know *why* the option is available if it isn't a good thing?
    Thanks again.
     
  4. iamien

    iamien Cptn "Eh!"

    Ok drive compresion
    This is from back when HDD space wasnt so cheap like it is today.
    Picture Zipping most of your harddrive. sure it'll make em take less room. but the access time not involves disk spinning up, finding data, decompressinf data, accessing data, recompressing, etc
    BAsicly just dont do it :)
     
  5. jcm996

    jcm996 Private E-2

    Indexing service

    Basically it helps speed up search time on your computer (not the internet) It also uses more memory so it can make an index of all the files on your computer.

    Which basically boils down to how often to you use the search/find feature on your computer? If not much leave indexing off and wait the extra 5-20 seconds and save the disk space.
     
  6. Troy

    Troy Private E-2

    Man your PC specs are cool.

    You hav 100 GB HDD and surely don't want more space at the cost of performance. Then do not compress your hard drive.

    You have a powerful machine. It can search quickly enough without the help of an search index database.

    Anyway a search index database only takes up HDD space. Files are looked up every moment by your OS, either you do a file search or not. Don't want to tell much but... just try to think that when you open Windows Explorer, the drives are scanned for all file pointers and represented to you as graphical links to that pointer aka icons. Better leave it checked.
     

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