Thanks Gautam. I may just compress the folders of interest and see how it
works. Thanks for the benefit of your experience.
Tom C.
From: Gautam Sarup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: OT: NTFS File Compression
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:03:30 -0800
Tom,
I've been using this for several years and don't find it to be a
problem.
Cheers,
Gautam
On 12/14/05, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for the OT post. I get kind of lazy and am tending to keep 40 -
50Gb
> of photos on my laptop hard drive. They get backed up but I don't
always
> have access to my external hard drive, so I keep them for when I want to
> work on them.
>
> Any thoughts on using NTFS compression/compaction to save hard drive
space
> for these folders? I looked for performance degradation statistics
online
> but didn't find much.
>
> I'm running XP Professional with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and 512Mb of RAM.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom C.
>
>
>
