The advantages and disadvantages of compressing u disk

When we format a USB disk, we can see three options in the Format option, are "Quick format", "Enable compression" and "Create a DOS boot disk", most of the time we choose to format quickly, very few people use the back two, today we will give you a specific introduction to the "Enable compression" option. Look at what it does and what the pros and cons are.

Enabling compression is NTFS-formatted to compress the disk (compress the files inside your hard drive to save hard disk space).

Advantages:

1, save disk space: If you save most of the files to text class files or data source files, and configuration is not very bad, then turn on this feature on the disk space savings have a great help!

2, speed up the compression speed: read-only data compression will not affect speed, but will improve speed.

Disadvantages:

1, compression speed is slow: with compression, later to the hard disk storage data or delete data are slow (because to compress, but also decompression), the conclusion is that the pressure is similar to not pressure.

2, compressed space after the increase is not obvious.

Analyzed the pros and cons we can see that "enable compression" can save a certain amount of disk space. But the corresponding compression speed will also be slowed, and in today's U disk space increasing time, the savings of a quantitative space can be negligible, which is why everyone basically in the format of the process did not choose to "enable compression" this option, indeed because it is not very useful. The conclusion is that everyone in the normal operation of the choice of quick format can be.