Hi Tom,

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:24:23 -0700, Tom C wrote:

>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.

With a relatively fast CPU (as you have) you won't notice ...

However, depending on the types of files in those
folders you may or may not achieve much compression.

PEF files would compress, but if most of them are JPEG's 
you will find compression by the filesystem does not
bring much ...

>
>I'm running XP Professional with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and 512Mb of RAM.

Fast enough for use with NTFS compression.

Regards, JvW
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