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USB Flash Drive Compressing
Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive?
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"Ron" wrote in message
... Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive? Yeah, when I sat on one. It broke ;-) Seriously, are you're talking about either compressing files on a file system, or a filesystem with built-in compression capabilities? Rob |
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Rob Turk wrote:
"Ron" wrote in message ... Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive? Yeah, when I sat on one. It broke ;-) Seriously, are you're talking about either compressing files on a file system, or a filesystem with built-in compression capabilities? Rob I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type USB drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture already employ some type of compression? |
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Ron wrote:
I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type USB drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture already employ some type of compression? Highly unlikely that the drive is already compressing given the capacities that they come in, i.e. 128MB, 256MB etc, these are nice round memory capacity figures which would be difficult to accomplish with a variable compression scheme. -- Nik Simpson |
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Nik Simpson wrote:
Ron wrote: I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type USB drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture already employ some type of compression? For storing JPEG files, the compression is already there (per file). So, for at least the original use of these memory devices, futher compression should not expect to find a lot of redundancy. For other uses, therefore, compression should help. |
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