And is it worth waiting for it? And how much does it save?
2007-02-28 07:56:46 · 7 answers · asked by JG 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
no, if anything it should help your computer, sorting files making them more compact allowing more space when you de-frag, it depends how big your hard drive is and how fast your computer is. one time i did a de-frag for a laptop in 5-7 minutes :) but really it wont hurt your computer, it will increase performance by a small percentage.
2007-02-28 08:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jack H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because as you fill up the drive it will take longer to find the associated files. Also you have to be careful if you're using something like MaxPlus to install the drive on your computer and your computer actually does not support larger drives.
I did this in the past and when I went over the actual physical limit of the drive it crashed and I lost all data. So for example 120GB you compress it and it says I now have space for 140GB the moment I saved 121GB the drive crashed.
2007-02-28 08:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by SpicyLiving 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is really not worth the wait, plus it will slow down certain operations if it needs to access those compressed files.
Just delete things that you do not need, or buy a bigger hard drive.
You can get 250 Gigabyte hard drives for less than 80 bucks now.
2007-02-28 08:00:31 · answer #3 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very not to be recommended. Did it once and then decided to change at a later date. Trouble was I now had more on there than I had space. Bad move all round. NTFS will compress files that you are not using so this could be the way to go
2007-02-28 07:59:33 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew Carson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ACTUALLY, when you [compress] the data on a drive, you are helping to speed up the system's organization speed.
Picture your data like this; a bowl full of many size rocks and sand. Shake the bowl and the sand will naturally drop to the bottom.
COMPRESSING the data on your drive simply "sorts out" all these (individual) bits; grains of sand and smaller rocks to the "bottom" of your drive so it will work faster, helping your system to sort through all this data (sand bits.)
How much space you will save depends entirely upon how much data is on your disk.
2007-02-28 08:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You won't see a dramatic savings. I have seen up to 50% under perfect conditions. You can expect 35% under good conditions. I would rather just buy an external hard drive.
2007-02-28 08:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not recommended its a no no. It won't speed things up your forcing the drive to take on more than designed for. Its a windows feature not a hard drive function.
2007-02-28 08:18:37 · answer #7 · answered by ilisalec 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋