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Mac disk images: any real difference between 'master' and 'compressed'?
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When creating a disk image (.cdr or .dmg) from a physical CD or DVD on Mac (using Disk Utility > New Image) one can choose between 'CD\DVD Master‘ and 'compressed'. Apart from the obvious fact that a compressed image will be smaller, are there other differences? Will a compressed image for example …
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The accepted answer's claim that the compressed image will be slower to restore is likely wrong (unless you have an SSD): with current CPUs, decompression is faster than reading more data from a hard disk. As a case in point, all applications of Sno…
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