windows buit-in drive compression on small ssd any body tried it?

Hi.

My 10" tablet/notebook only has 32gb of memory and windows 8 takes about 12gb of that, i have a 64gb microsd for storage, but i remmbered the drive compression that has been offered with windows for decades is it worth my enabling it?

Thanks

John.

 

Don't bother with that. It will reduce the windows folder at the expense of CPU cycles. Things will load a bit more slow and also you will add more wear to the SSD. After decompressing, the file will get processed and recompressed again (for a small space decrease you get 2 more CPU cycles and 1 more SSD I/O because the file gets rewritten completely instead of only the modified bits).
My reccomendation is to save up and upgrade to a bigger SSD (64gb or better 128gb)

 

The flash memory is not easily upgradable if at all, it could be soldered to the motherboard.

Thanks

John.

 

Give it a try, see how well it helps. It should net you 10-20% more space. I recently picked up one of the Transformer T100's which is what I am assuming you are referring to? The CPU would likely be the bottleneck because it compresses the data on the fly.

A few things I can recommend is:
- delete the hibernate file (admin command prompt "powercfg -h off") since you likely sleep it all the time or power off, should save you about 1.5-2GB
- reduce the size of your system restore size to 500MB or so, or turn it off entirely. I link to that site because you normally are limited to no less then 3% drive space, but 500-600GB should net you several restore states.
- Normally I would say to reduce or turn off paging file/virtual memory, but considering the limited 2GB RAM, you will need it. It can't hurt to set it to 1024MB though, as it shouldn't need much more than that being a 32bit system and it's limited performance.

If you do all that you should gain about 4GB back.

There is an 8GB Recovery partition and not sure how to get rid of it. Would be ideal if I could. I will have to look into that. It says 8GB capacity and 8GB free space. I actually think this is the "OP" space though to maintain maximum performance. You could probably delete this and set your own OP of 2-4GB if you wanted, but as the drive gets more full it may lose some performance.

 

8gb recovery partition i think you have got your sums wrong my recovery partition is 700mb tiny, I have already done all the ssd space saving measures as soon as i got my T100.

I don't think i will do the drive compression, i just found my 64gb microsd hanging halfway out, so be careful if you use one yourself, i would like to know if the 32gb flash is upgradable.

Thanks

John.

 

This one:

 

Your lucky to have a 64gb ssd in your T100 , sorry for the confusion.

EDIT : below is a photo of my 32gb partitions

John.

 

This was actually investigated by NBR members a long time ago:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...ecked-box-compress-drive-save-disk-space.html

Hope this helps!