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A Look at Data Compression

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-backup-time dept.

With the new year fast approaching many of us look to the unenviable task of backing up last years data to make room for more of the same. That being said, rojakpot has taken a look at some of the data compression programs available and has a few insights that may help when looking for the best fit. From the article: "The best compressor of the aggregated fileset was, unsurprisingly, WinRK. It saved over 54MB more than its nearest competitor - Squeez. But both Squeez and SBC Archiver did very well, compared to the other compressors. The worst compressors were gzip and WinZip. Both compressors failed to save even 200MB of space in the aggregated results."

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  1. Just use DiskDoubler by mattkime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why mess around with compressing individual files? DiskDoubler is definitely the way to go. Hell, I even have it set up to automagically compress files I haven't used in a week.

    Its running perfectly fine on my Mac IIci.

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    1. Re:Just use DiskDoubler by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 3, Funny

      Mac IIci? Has it finished compressing files since you bought it?

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  2. Re:More time = More compression by Orgasmatron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Speaking of unknown compression programs, does anyone remember OWS?

    I had a good laugh at that one when I figured out how it worked, way back in the BBS days.

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  3. Re:Speed by Hangeron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, I wondered what the big empty blocks in the middle of the text were. I have ad blocking with this http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html