Hard Drive Compressing Pro's and Con's

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by cdolgner, Apr 2, 2007.

  1. cdolgner

    cdolgner Private E-2

    If I compress my hard drive to free up more space will it mess it up. Back when I was using Windows 95 and 98 seems I heard it was bad to do this. I have Win XP Home SP2, 256 mb of memory. The hard drives are 10 gb. Its two computers that I want to do this on. Thanks
     
    cdolgner, Apr 2, 2007
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  2. _dinsdale_

    _dinsdale_ Corporal

    The main problem with compression is data read times. It takes longer to read and write to the hard drive if you have to compress/ uncompress with every action. Not a real problem if you are word processing, but graphics/video applications suffer

    Dins
     
    _dinsdale_, Apr 2, 2007
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