Op Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:03:30 +0100 schreef Gautam Sarup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Tom,
I've been using this for several years and don't find it to be a
problem.
I second that. Regarding performance: I gathered that greatly depends on
your system. With compressed files, processor usage goes up (to
compress/decompress), but harddisk read/write time goes down (because the
files are smaller). If you have a relatively fast PC with slow harddisks,
performance might even go up...
Oh, and if you want to invest some money in your PC, look at more RAM ;-)
Hope this helps,
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.
--
Regards, Lucas
