compressing second drive pro con?

[Rick]

Hi

I am running XP Pro on a system with two hard drives, both 2 gig. I have
the op system on C drive and moved programs like my documents, program files
etc. to my D drive to free up some space on C drive.

My question is what are the pros or cons about compressing the D drive? This
system will be used mainly for Internet access and some minor typing.

Thanks
Rick

 

[purplehaz]

Compressing the drive has two main cons:
1 - it slows access to the drive and files
2 - I've seen compressed drives get corrupted to often and the whole drives
data gets lost
I always reccomend not compressing drives.
Now-a-days hard drives are so cheap it worth it just to get a new bigger
drive and be done with it for 3-4 years until you need another bigger one.

As far as pros:
imho there are none except you get some space back, but a bigger drive
solves that or backup media like dvd that can hold 4gig of data.

 

[Chris]

Hi

I am running XP Pro on a system with two hard drives, both 2 gig. I have
the op system on C drive and moved programs like my documents, program files
etc. to my D drive to free up some space on C drive.

My question is what are the pros or cons about compressing the D drive? This
system will be used mainly for Internet access and some minor typing.

Thanks
Rick

You can buy a forty gig hard drive so cheap, it is just not worth
messing with what you have now. The trouble is , you will have to move
the stuff from your older, slower HD to the newer one. Most HD come
with pretty good instructions on how to do this.

Chris

 

[Alex Nichol]

Compressing the drive has two main cons:
1 - it slows access to the drive and files
2 - I've seen compressed drives get corrupted to often and the whole drives
data gets lost

Also, on a data drive, it may well be that a lot of the files are
already compressed as far as they will go; eg pictures in .jpg; movies
in .mpg or .rm or.wmv; music in .mp3 or .wma files. These are in fact
liable to *grow* slightly if you try to compress them. Do any
compression on the basis of folders that are known to be both little
used and compressible; not on whole drives. One folder that repays it,
for example, is Windows\system32\dllcache, which in my machine
compresses from 230 MB to 157