[pchelpers] Re: Pros & Cons of compressing HDD

Eric Furman wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Can someone give me the Pros & Cons of using the compression facility of 
> WinXP?
> 
> Specifically, will compression adversely effect application speed?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric
Quite possibly. It makes sense that if a document is compressed (say in 
zip format for argument's sake), then it takes time to uncompress it for 
normal use. On the other hand if compression just removes unnecessary 
space in the file, it may work faster.
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