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i'm running a little low on space since i had to find 1.5TB on my other drives due to a dodgy drive. im thinking of compressing the data using the feature in the proporties if you highlight the folders click on advanced and select 'compress contents to save disk space' (compressing the whole drive causes problems which i had befor, couldnt boot because the boot file had been compressed) so does this make any diffrence with the speed at which things will load? i know they files will be heavily fragmented which i'm going to sort out, but will there be any speed diffrence? maybe it would be a benifit? since the hard drive is the bottle neck in most computers, smaller files would be able to be read faster?? or will it make it slower?? going to only compress the program files folders. |
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well it will have to uncompressed everything, the computer can do this rather quickly, but yes it will slow it down, im not sure how much or even if it will be noticeable. you cant compress a hard drive that you boot from, that just wont work very well, as you found out. i would say if it is your main booting hard drive not to compress any of it, if it is an external or non booting disk feel free. |
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dont compress program files or and system files!!! if you want to save space i suggest you just zip your documents or like wise. |
