Compressing drive to save space?

[Fortress]

My 1TB file archive is slowly filling up. I've read some topics that says I could compress the drive so I can save space. Is compressing my drive worth it? And if so, are there any disadvantages in compressing it? I cannot buy a new hard drive as of this moment so I'll have to look for alternative ways.

[Husky]

Disadvantages:

 

- It's much slower to access and create files

- It uses more CPU Cycles to decompress files when accessing them

- It can sometimes mess some files up (mostly OS files)

 

Basically I wouldn't do it... I don't think you would save that much space by compressing them unless you have files on there that are suitable to be compressed.

[Blake]

10 hours ago, Fortress said:

My 1TB file archive is slowly filling up. I've read some topics that says I could compress the drive so I can save space. Is compressing my drive worth it? And if so, are there any disadvantages in compressing it? I cannot buy a new hard drive as of this moment so I'll have to look for alternative ways.

Unless you are using HW Compression don't do it (SSDs for the most part do this), however you say it's an archiving drive, so you might be fine. You'll get maybe 5% of the disk space if your lucky.