Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 09:12:44 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 04:39:38, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On January 20, 2000 at 03:30:03, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>I can say that for native NTFS (WinNT) disk compression, there was no noticable >>impact on performance for any program. I had things like TBs (Edwards) >>compressed, and performance wasn't slowed at all. Before Nalimov compression, I >>had those compressed that way also, with no noticable performance hit. >>I think NTFS compression is a bit conservative, though, and if you use something >>else, performance might be a bit less. YMMV. :) >> >>Jeremiah > >Probably NTFS was smart enough to detect that it couldn't recompress the data, >and consequently left the actual data alone. Some compression implementations >are not so clever. For which data? NTFS compressed the uncompressed Nalimov TBs from a total of ~22GB to about 10GB. The Edwards TBs were compressed from 2.5GB to about 1GB, IIRC.
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