¿Es seguro comprimir el disco para ahorrar espacio?

Is it safe to compress drive to save space?

No, you should not compress your hard drive. Compressing your hard drive may save you some space. However, compression is a two-part process: compression and decompression. Although decompression isnt as taxing on the computer as compression, it still requires CPU, RAM, and disk cycles.

For example, if you compress a drive full of .zip files, those .zip files are already compressed files and the additional compression won’t do much. On the other hand, if you compress a drive full of text files (.txt files), you’ll likely see huge space savings.

SelectStart>Settings>System>Storage.

Open File Explorer, find C drive, and right-click it. Select the Properties option in the right-click menu. Navigate to the General tab, and then uncheck the Compress this drive to save disk space box. Click the Apply and OK button to confirm and execute the changes.

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Compressing files on your computer saves disk space on both removable and non-removable drives. The compression process reduces the overall size of a computer file by physically removing data from the file that is repeated or empty.

1) Locate the file or folder that you want to zip. 2) Press and hold (or right-click) the file or folder, select (or point to) Send to, and then select Compressed (zipped) folder .A new zipped folder with the same name is created in the same location. To rename it, press and hold (or right-click) the folder, select Rename, and then type the new name See More…