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Name: Anonymous 2006-02-12 2:27

are there any cons for compressing drive:c to save space?

Name: Anonymous 2006-02-12 9:24

In reality, it's not so simple. What's faster, grabbing many bytes off a disk, or grabbing half as many?

I/O is a major bottleneck. Compressing data could well be faster, although you'll get more CPU usage.

Of course, if all you do (like a lot of us) is store images, movies, music, and archives, disk compression is retarded.

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