NTFS / other drive compression.

[kenwshmt]

 As I undo my drive bender array, and see that i dont have NTFS compression enabled on where I am putting it all, do any of you have experience with some of the ntfs compressor aps / and or things like zip magic?

 

I'm fine with starting it ntfs compressing and run for a week. even on what it shouldnt compress i will probably get 400 gig from it, maybe more.

 

[kenwshmt]

this little tool seems to go about it faster. http://www.freewarefiles.com/FileThin-NTFS_program_61738.html

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I don't both with NTFS compression. 

 

Actually, I don't use 4k Allocation Unit sizes on my pool, so I don't even get the option anymore.

 

Also, running "compact /s:x: /C /I /A" should in theory compress everything on "X:\", it's subdirectories, and enable compression on new files, as well.

 

It's not a GUI tool, but it's built into Windows.