Can I use NTFS drive compression on my movie folders (video_ts)? (1 Viewer)

[kenp2600]

Will it hurt anything to compress my video_ts folders to save disk space? I guess I should also ask if the Video_TS files compress very well. If they don't compress much it probably wouldn't be worth the overhead.

Is anyone else doing this?

Thanks

 

[dir]

Yes you can.
No it doesn't.
I'd think few people bother with the CPU overhead.

I just tried it for one dvd:

Before: 4.19GB (4,501,715,787 bytes)
After: 4.18GB (4,491,713,355 bytes).

About 10 million bytes (9MB) per movie)
About 20MB per full 9GB movie.

0.2 percent reduction.

 

[kenp2600]

Thanks for the reply Dir. If your compression ratio is typical it doesn't look like it would be worth doing. At that percentage, you would only gain 2gb on a full 1tb drive. That's not even enough for 1 extra movie.

thanks