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Does compressing the local disk make it slower?
I'm running an EeePC and I read on many sites that compressing the hard drive saves disk space. I agree. But, I'm not sure I want to since I have quite a few files on it. Would compressing my Eee's SSD (4G) slow down the read/write times for files? Would it increase boot/shutdown time?
Please, answer ASAP :\
I'm running Window XP on it.
How do I resize clusters under XP?
Compressing your SSD just like any hard drive will in fact slow down access and read/write times. THis is so, because the information is found by the drive in a compressed format and it needs to uncompress it so that you can read it properly.
Instead of compressing your drive you could use the dynamic cluster resize tool if you have Windows Vista on that EEE pc. Basically when you install Windows Vista it uses a standard by default setting of 8 sectors per cluster for storage. THis means that each cluster is 4096 bytes in size by default for storage. A cluster of course is the smallest addressable storage area by your computer for writing files to. If you shrink the cluster size down to say 2 sectors per cluster (ie. 1024 bytes for each cluster) then you can really save on file slack space. File slack space is the space in each cluster that is unused or underutilized by the operating system to put information into.
For example:
If you use files that are say 2.5 KB in size, and you have the default cluster size on your volume ie. 4 KB, then each file will be written in the first 2.5 KB area within the 4 KB cluster, so in each cluster you will lose about 4 KB - 2.5 KB = 1.5 KB of space. So your hard drive will fill up quickly.
I have changed my wife's hard drive recently from the standard 4 KB cluster to 1 KB cluster on the fly using the Vista tool and this gave her another 210 GB of space on her drive after adjusting this number.
Best thing about this , is that you didn't compact the information, you just made the drive more efficient , so it will run just as fast as before , but you have more space.
Best wishes
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