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Why does compressing and decompressing my SSD hard drive free up space?
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Mar 15, 20262100 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I bought an SSD (SandForce 2), created a tiny 25GB partition on it for Windows and installed Windows 7 64-bit. In order to free disk space, I enabled compression on the drive using the Properties entry in the context menu for the drive in Explorer. Prior to compressing I had around 5GB of free spac…
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Differences of 2 or 5 gigabytes are tiny. Changes in size of swap file or temporary files created by programs easily account for that much or more. Is your pagefile of static size, or do you let OS to book it when needed? Do you use Photoshop or oth…
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