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Any useful scenario for NTFS compression?
Good day.
I know storage space is dirty cheap these days but I am wondering if there is any weird scenario for NTFS compression to be used. For instance, for those very slow hard disks , where throughput is very bad. I am thinking about some netbook/laptop slow 5400rps hard disks and such other configurations where the chipset isn't delivering a good throughput data experience (I am looking at one of my work computers, with a crappy nForce chipset where its IDE hard disk isn't a good performer).
As NTFS compression incurs in small speed penalties and there is no reason to compress either not compressible or writeable data, I am thinking in compressing the Program Files folders only and also those folders which are read often but seldom written to.
Let's hear your insights...