Recent content by JamesAbel

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    Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip

    Great article, but if there's going to be a part 2 I'd like to see a comparison to the built-in Windows zip capability. In other words, what do you get by using one of these apps instead of the built-in zip.
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    2011 Flash Memory Summit Recap: Tom's Hardware Represents

    On the surveys on "willingless to pay for SSDs" - has this ever been done on someone that has TRIED an SSD? Reading about a benchmark is different than experiencing it. On my SSDs, I see huge benefits in things like app load time vs. an HDD. Also, SSDs are much faster vs. HDDs when multiple...
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    Benefits of Solid State Drives (SSD) Optimization (Tweaking)

    Turn on Windows 'compress drive to save space'. I got a 25% back (98 GB of data in 74 GB of disk space).