Freeing Up Capacity On An SSD With NTFS Compression

12:00 AM - December 1, 2011 by Manuel Masiero, Achim Roos Table of contents 1. More SSD Capacity Through NTFS Compression 2. NTFS Is 19 Years Old 3. Test Setup And Benchmarks 4. NTFS Compression In Practice 5. Benchmark Results: Sequential Read And Write (CrystalDiskMark) 6. Benchmark Results: 4 KB Random Reads/Writes (CrystalDiskMark) 7. Benchmark Results: 512 KB Random Reads/Writes (CrystalDiskMark) 8. Benchmark Results: Launching Applications, Windows Startup And Shutdown 9. Benchmark Results: PCMark 7 10. Benchmark Results: SYSmark 2012 11. Should You Compress Data On Your SSD?

Flash-based solid-state drives with more than 64 or 128 GB of capacity are fairly small, but they're still really expensive relative to hard drives. Compressing the Windows partition frees up some space, but is that really a good idea?

As enthusiasts, we're forced to contend with a number of obstacles in our quest to continually keep performance balanced without overspending. New processors, graphics cards, memory kits, power deliver, and storage performance are all potential bottlenecks along the way. Fortunately, capacity isn't as big of an issue. Even 2.5

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