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Speaking from experience, compression to gain space is a complete and total waste of time, it almost always has been. The last time I tried it was back in the MSDOS doublespace days, and it was a horrible experience.
You can buy a 2 terrabyte internal hard drive for 110 dollars. 1 terrabyte for around 85.
There CAN be an advantage in specific situations under specific RAID levels, it does not mean that raid is superior to single drives, or practical in every situation, and for every price point.jpanhalt said:There is an advantage to smaller drives in RAID configuration.
No, why reinvent the weel? There's a lot of test results on the web. However, being able to comress files transparently for the user is a nice feature, so why not take advantage of using it?Grossel, have you ever done any statistics on how much space you're saving with the compressed data?
And I do love 7z files for they ability to shrink physical data size even moreI prefer to use zip files when i really want something compressed.
Cost/benefit. It slows down access time, it uses processor cycles. Disk space is so cheap that compression is effectively pointless unless you're talking about very very large databases, it's pointless to the 'end user' of a typical PC, and even to higher end users, there simply is no advantage.However, being able to comress files transparently for the user is a nice feature, so why not take advantage of using it?