If i compress my hard drive will it affect performance? I know it frees up space by compacting the information , but how does it differ from a disk defragmenter?
2007-05-30 20:10:04 · 3 answers · asked by O Kongeriket 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Your hard drive is broken up into sectors, and only One file can be stored in a sector or part of a file.... so if you store a file into a sector and don't fill up that sector, the remaining part of the sector is useless to you... lost space..
What compression does is it makes all the files on your hard drive into one big file.. so that all sectors get filled up.. but in doing that, it takes longer for the computer to retrieve your information.
2007-05-31 04:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sea Eagle 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hit performance? Yes, it will. Compression and decom happens with request to access disks designated as compression-in-effect. Defragging is rearranging data to put together big chunks, performance-wise is like a page in a book, think of a diary smaller page is like smaller chunk needing more page-flipping to write your entry, if the page is physically bigger...
2007-05-30 20:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i assume your talking about when you do a disk clean up
it compresses your old files so they take up less space
but when there compressed they cant be used
so it only does older files
defrag only takes out the dead space between the bits on your hd
so that files load faster
2007-05-30 20:35:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋