Installing BMS on SSD
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Used xpress16k, you can use any of them the more you compress the longer it takes though, but damn its a great way to save up those GB’s.
REALLY ??! WOW … I’ve played with “compact” since WinXP . only caveat was, maybe still, that disk must be formatted in ntfs , 4K cluster size. That are the slowest operations , even on ssd . read-write., on that cluster size.
And still , if any hard drive fail occurs , it is more problematic to repair compressed files.
So then it wasn’t so relevant to me, and left the idea…
You should see ‘compacted’ files and folders blue in explorer. (green, or red? are encrypted ones, but that doesn’t interest us now , also that can be changed with some tweak.)Now, with ??TB disks (non-SSD) it really speeds up things if you format bigger cluster size , eg. 16K , but space is wasted much more when lots of small files. (smaller then 16KB) , or incomplete filled clusters., but reported fully in use.
- defragmentation is A must much more often …where/when required.
But still, for SSD’s , space gained is almost ENORMOUS…, with those new algos , … well ,they’ve finally put modern cpu’s in use somewhat
… and are still faster then any electromechanical disk.
I think I’m in
We’ll see for cpu use still, maybe it is irrelevant , maybe it isn’t. (I’m still on quad core non-ht intel , from 2008/9.) … Maybe it will suffer some penalties, from (de)compress on the fly…,
-, … I 'm thinking all around, system global use, not just for BMS ,…at least for stuff that just lies around taking up space.(…hmm now you got me thinking,… what if you could restrict only one cpu core/thread for disk I/O , eg the 4th one , less used… then it wouldn’t impact the system at all that much…, with some cpu/thread tweak we should be able to attach only windows disk I/O thread service image to that core, the one which is responsible for de-compress on read/write… I guess it i a bit deeper in windows, but could be doable… , … to check)
think I have some benchmarking to do, time wise … and/or fps wise
Anyway , HUGE Thanks for that info.
Cheers
edit:
Xpress16, lzx and other algos are ONLY for exe files , so no benefit for other types … icons in explorer are changed in Win10 , so files are not blue but have two boxes in upper right corner and, of course , every compressed file or folder gets a ‘C’ attribute as before
Typical, all around, cpu usage on my 4core Q6600 3.4Ghz(oc) system is about less then <5% (Its not worth disk i/o thread h4cking in the end) , … so it is very small , … that much is spent watching full hd / surround video with “media player classic home-cinema” player using HAL video acceleration (hardware video decoding) , so … very small cpu usage indeed
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