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Windows: Will compressing the hard drive partition speed up disk access?
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Possible Duplicate: How does NTFS compression affect performance? In theory, on a reasonably fast PC, the processor is mostly idle during hard drive access. A compressed file takes up less physical space, so the hard drive (being the slowest part in the system) has to read less physical data. One cā¦
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Some discussion on the subject here http://ask.metafilter.com/51652/Could-turning-on-disk-compression-actually-speed-up-disk-access and here http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=801882 too many variables for a direct answer.
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