Compression tool with the best capacity to reduce folders dimension
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Share practical recommendations that address the author's needs.
I've used 7-Zip in past with their 7z format and it gave me good results. How much it will be able to compress depends mostly on what kind of data you have in those folders.
7Z provides the best compression result with medium compression level.
for a full comparison: Compression benchmark: 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip comparison
for a full comparison: Compression benchmark: 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinRar, WinZip comparison
If your main target is the strength of password protection rather than size, try pea file format of Peazip, and change the encryption method in settings from default to AES, Serpent and Twofish.
7zip for best compression ratio
Depends in the content you are trying to compress. If you are trying to compress Video/Audio with something like 7zip or winrar, then don't. It's not worth the compute power or time.
For media files, I would suggest re-encoding with handbrake but it comes at a cost of reduced quality.
Good that you mentioned HandBrake for media files. I used it to re-encode 10 video files, their original size was 1.2 GB. After compression, they became 270 MB. I did not notice a change in quality, I think it depends on the video and the preset used in the encoding.
@aidunno Since we're talking about reducing space in general, you can use a feature called "Compact OS":
here is how to use it:
How to Enable or Disable Compact OS in Windows 10 & 11 - MajorGeeks
Windows 10 and Windows 11 include tools to help you use less drive space, including Compact OS, which allows you to run the operating system from compressed files. When running CompactOS, Windows update can replace or remove individual files as needed to help maintain the drive footprint size...
www.majorgeeks.com
Can repeated compression/decompression cause excessive write to ssd?@aidunno Since we're talking about reducing space in general, you can use a feature called "Compact OS":
here is how to use it:
How to Enable or Disable Compact OS in Windows 10 & 11 - MajorGeeks
Windows 10 and Windows 11 include tools to help you use less drive space, including Compact OS, which allows you to run the operating system from compressed files. When running CompactOS, Windows update can replace or remove individual files as needed to help maintain the drive footprint size...www.majorgeeks.com
Can enabling compact OS negatively impact the performance?
No, it shouldn't. Compact OS only compresses the existing operating system files. This is a one-time operation that rewrites the files into a compressed form. It does not continuously recompress files that are already compressed. New Files and Future Windows updates are also installed in a compressed state. When you use a file, it is decompressed into RAM for use, and it remains compressed on the disk. But remember you are trading-off between the reduced disk reading and the increased CPU usage required for on-the-fly decompression.
Compact OS, single-instancing, and image optimization
Windows 10 includes tools to help you use less drive space.
learn.microsoft.com
For applying CompactOS on other files on your harddisk, you may use this program. It also offers more compression algorithms
github.com
GitHub - IridiumIO/CompactGUI: Reduce the space taken up by games and programs on disk by using native Windows APIs
Reduce the space taken up by games and programs on disk by using native Windows APIs - IridiumIO/CompactGUI
github.com
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