[dba-Tech] Compressing Drives

Hi Rocky:

The compression depends so much on the files being stored there. A couple of
years ago I did an experiment to see how space I could gain on a Firewire
connected drive. The drive was being used by my wife who needs a lot of
picture storage. 

The result was that the drive access speed dropped and there was relatively
little space gained. That is when I discovered that JPEG pictures do not
compress so the whole effort was for not. But with word and spreadsheet
documents, for example, there should be a decent space increase.

HTH
Jim      

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:03 AM
To: List
Subject: [dba-Tech] Compressing Drives

 
Dear List:
 
On the Properties for a local drive there's a box you can check to compress
the drive to save space.  Does anyone use this feature? How much compression
do you get? And does this significantly impact storage and retrieval times? 

TIA
 
Rocky
 

 	
	
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