-=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one

And I'll add to that a little.  Since the drive was formatted with NTFS, you 
will see MUCH less of a space savings than you would with a partition using 
FAT or FAT32.  Additionally, compressed drives suffer more from file 
corruption.  A single bit (the 1's & 0's that make up files) out of wack and 
the file could become unrecoverable.  Without compression, it's much easier 
for CheckDisk to fix a corrupted bit.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I don't think it's worth the extra 
space you would gain, especially considering the size and cost of today's 
super large hard drives.

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one


> Compressing a drive or partition *might* save you space.  It depends on 
> what
> is stored on it.  If it is full of JPG or MPEG files that are already
> compressed, compressing a drive will recover very little space (relatively
> speaking).  If it is full of text files and other uncompressed data files
> then the space recovered can be enormous.
>
> Don 

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