Compress harddrive

[raylee011]

I am fixing a old computer. Is it a bad idea to compress this old harddrive. Why?

 

[Guest]

My advice is don't compress the hard drive...if they were ment for a greater capacity then they would be that larger size. Compression stresses the hard drive and you have to be careful with old parts that aren't easy to replace.

I've seen so many hard drives knackered due to compression its not funny..

 

[Guest]

Yeah, compression tools like Drivespace put a lot more stress on the HDD and certainly on the CPU. You might be able to put 1.5 to 2 times more data on it, but at what cost?
Programs will load terrebly slow.
A better Idea is to compress a small piece of you're HDD to put text-files and so on. Put you're operating system on the uncompressed part as well as often used software.
Also do not put mp3, or any compressed file on the compressed volume (since you can't compress those any further)

Godim

 

[Arrow]

If it's an old computer, I don't think you'd want to slow it down any further by compressing the hard drive. I recommend you keep it uncompressed.


Rob
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