Do you compress your C drive?

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  1. Posts : 387
    Win 7 & 10 x64
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       #21

    Should i uncompressed my hard drive on my main computer? I currently have 574 GB of free space
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  2. Posts : 1,633
    Win 7 Ult SP1/Win 10 Pro (all x64)
       #22

    You'll find that it works a lot faster and better uncompressed, so yes.

    I know the question is open to debate but personally I would never compress any drive unless it was entirely devoted to long-term storage and rarely accessed.
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  3. Posts : 908
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #23

    It really doesn't make since to compress a drive since, oh.... 10 years ago, the price per gigabyte has never been cheaper. Not only does it slow your system down it's just another piece of technology to go wrong!

    Ap
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  4. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #24

    I would never consider compressing a drive these days. it's probably been 15+ years since I ever compressed a disk.
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  5. Posts : 3,139
    Systems 1 and 2: Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Win 8 Developer
       #25

    Can you say SCSI-1? That was my last time on a server. Drives were expensive and space was short.
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  6. Posts : 3,187
    Main - Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit; 2nd - Windows Server 2008 R2
       #26

    Ever had a single file get corrupted and cause headaches? In a general sense, compression treats your whole hard drive like a single file. One little glitch and - kablooie.
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  7. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
       #27

    I haven't used compressing my hard drives, but what i did is i bought my external storage to store my other files there rather than compressing it.
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  8. Posts : 12,364
    8 Pro x64
       #28

    Nice thread necro.

    Welcome
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