Comments on: NTFS File Compression: Why Blue?

By: Ramesh @ The Geek Stuff

Ramesh @ The Geek Stuff — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:30:47 +0000

Funny questions from users always have stirred my imaginations in several ways.

Even when the answer is very straight forward for me as an expert, when you start thinking about why users asked about the questions, you’ll really find out all the areas of improvements that can be done to make that particular feature more understandable to the user.

Ramesh
The Geek Stuff

By: El Di Pablo

El Di Pablo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:21:37 +0000

Hey Molly, we use it on our older file servers that have limited space. I work in the real estate market which has totally taken a dump, so buying bigger and better drives isn’t an option…Enter compression!!

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:17:35 +0000

with the price for those 750 gig monster drives fallen significantly below $100, who needs drive or file compression?

the performance hits are the deal breaker for me: NTFS compression increases CPU usage by 1-5% and the number of write requests to the drive by 25%.

By: Karl L. Gechlik

Karl L. Gechlik — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:05:00 +0000

When I was taking a mcse course back when the instructor just kept saying you cant have both of these enabled... you cant have both of these enabled.

I asked her why she kept repeating this every 15 minutes or so.

She said so you will remember it.

I snickered and went to get a soda.

But Hey I REMEMBERED IT! Whats The Other Half of The Battle? Damn GI Joe never told us that!!!