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Mehdi Amini
Does anyone know what the compression ratio is on a drive
on Windows 2000.
on Windows 2000.
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Michael Bednarek
Does anyone know what the compression ratio is on a drive
on Windows 2000.
No, no-one knows. It's not very high, but probably higher than the
compression in my Grandpa's lawn mower.
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R. C. White
Hi, Mehdi.
I don't know the details, but my understanding is that, like with any kind
of compression algorithm, the compression depends mostly on the type of data
in the file being compressed, rather than on the operating system or even
the file system. Some graphics files, for example, can be greatly reduced,
while many binary files can be compressed very little.
You might find this (and similar) KB article helpful:
Best Practices for NTFS Compression in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;251186
And these (and similar) pages from the online version of the Win2K Pro
Resource Kit:
File Systems
Compressing and Decompressing Volumes, Folders, and Files
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.asp
RC
I don't know the details, but my understanding is that, like with any kind
of compression algorithm, the compression depends mostly on the type of data
in the file being compressed, rather than on the operating system or even
the file system. Some graphics files, for example, can be greatly reduced,
while many binary files can be compressed very little.
You might find this (and similar) KB article helpful:
Best Practices for NTFS Compression in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;251186
And these (and similar) pages from the online version of the Win2K Pro
Resource Kit:
File Systems
Compressing and Decompressing Volumes, Folders, and Files
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.asp
RC