February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...

Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

I've been personally using NTFS compression on 12 external USB HD's since 2002 (Mix of 120/200/250GB HD's). (Actually only the ones that have compressible data have NTFS compression turned ...

As the name implies, anything that's compressed is SMALLER than it was originally. In the kitchen, some of us still use compacters that compress our garbage so we can cram more of it into the same ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

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Video files are typically large and consume a significant amount of disk space. More importantly, if the video file is raw and has been taken unprocessed from a camera then it might have an even ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

Click to viewWhether you've been sent a simple ZIP archive, you need to create and share your own compressed files, or you're staring down the barrel of some obscure archive format you've never seen ...