Compressing Hard Drive: Good Idea, or Bad?

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:42 am

Disk compression util can still be useful, like I'm using Drivespace to compress floppy disks.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:00 am

I would compress floppies and it would state 11MB on a 1.44MB floppy. This amazingly untrue. With compressed media you never know exactly how much space you have. I would only count on compression adding a few hundred KB to your floppy. If you're trying to place a RAR or ZIP on the floppy, then you'll probably end up with less space then you had before. If it's a uncompressed image(damnit you should compress it first) or a word documents, executables. Then maybe you could see a 40 %50 increase in space. But :\ usually it never works properly.

~klinky

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:58 am

what are floppy disks? =p

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:57 pm

I find it only a good idea to compress if you don't have that many large files on your computer. If you have a ton of smaller files under a meg or therabouts then it can save you a lot of face. But if you have gigs and gigs of AMVs and programs up the arse then it's not going to save you much space and would be a waste.