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NTFS compression is terrible for many small files

Posted on February 24, 2013 at 10:15 AM.

Written by erik

Don’t use NTFS compression for many small files. I recently tried to enable NTFS compression on some log files to see how the compression ratio would fare versus batch compressing them all. I experimented with a 64MB folder with ~10k files … Continued

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