Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:14:23 07/26/05
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On July 26, 2005 at 03:44:35, William Sorin wrote: >A friend told me that you can compress a 40 gig hardrive to just one 700mb CD >using Norton Ghost, I thought this would be completely impossible. But he claims >this is a Standard Operation. Is he nuts or am I silly for not knowing what he >alleges to be common? If there are 40 GB of compressed zip files, it will take about: 40000000000/680000000=58.8 CDs to hold it. I the disk has 50 MB of data on it, and it is mostly blank text, it might compress onto a single floppy. Everything in between is possible. An interesting read: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/ Very handy for separating the snake oil.
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