Compress Drive?

[Ramones53rd3rd]

Should i Compress my harddrive? I only have a 4gig hardrive and i need space. What does it do and should i?

[TheFilePirater]

although you do it a little bit more space compressing isnt a good idea,it slows the hdd down

[kaiweiler]

your best bet would be just to upgrade...to anything lol
even a 10 gig would be more then double what you have now!
compressing usually isn't a great idea

[DVD PIRATE III]

Youll run into major trouble if you compress(completely) the hard drive that your OS resides on..Its ok to compress partitions etc just make sure your OS isnt on it

[firefox]

Can you say SSSSLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW, that is what will happen if you compress the hard drive. The reason it slows down, is every time you access a file, it has to uncompress it to use it and then it has to compress it again after it is done. NO do not do it.