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Anyone here use drive compression in Win2k?

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bcterps

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I have this old small 3 gig HD that I use for mp3 storage. I'm gettin close to filling it up and thought about using the drive compression option in win2k to see how much more space I could get. Has anyone used this before? If I'm just using this for mp3s will it make much of a difference?

--Ben
 
Nope. MP3s are highly compressed already so you won't get much of a gain..maybe 3-5%.

What IS useful is compressing individual files on an NTFS drive. Just like you can right-click properties and make a file read-only, on an NTFS drive you can compress whatever you want by checking off the Compressed attribute.
 
You should only selectively use the ntfs compression on folders that store compressible data. By default there are certain folders in the winnt directory that are compressed. Don't use it on mp3s though because you won't gain much and will suffer a performance decrease (same goes for mpegs and avis).
 
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