Compressor X

[John787]

Has anyone used this to compress their SSD. If you have, is it worth it? This is something that steam sells.

[Bedna]

Never heard of that so I looked into it.

Looks like it's a complete scam, there is no AI stuff involved, it utilizes windows, or rather ntfs built in compression functions.
This review explains it pretty well: https://steamcommunity.com/id/VickyFrenzy/recommended/2988410/

If you want to enable it there is no need to buy any extra software to enable it for you.
You can read about how to enabling it here: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-file-compression-windows-11

If it will be effective or not on game files, ie actually save you space, I have no idea.
But you will suffer from extra overhead since every compressed file will have to be decompressed at runtime.
For example, microsoft recommends against compressing your windows drive for that reason so using it on your game files sounds so so to me.

[Coffee Foccee]

Originally posted by John787:

Has anyone used this to compress their SSD. If you have, is it worth it? This is something that steam sells.

Steam rollers for airport runway paving have the best SSD compression performance.

[sternenstaub70]

Originally posted by John787:

Has anyone used this to compress their SSD. If you have, is it worth it? This is something that steam sells.

What's the point of using an external (and suspicious) tool to compress a disk/drive when windows has the same feature already built in ?
just right-click on a drive letter, go to properties -> general -> compress drive

[John787]

Thanks everyone for your advice.

[Coffee Foccee]

Your welcome
If your mainboard has an M2 slot, hammer in a Fleischenworst stick.
The SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3, M.2 2280 is an "old" much sold 1TB SSD Wursten boardstick, one of many available SSD examples.

Check the exact specifications of your board, so that the Fleischenwursten has a tight fit with your Mother(board).

Wishing nice happy times and Funkyzeit !
Kind regards, Brueno

Originally posted by John787:

Thanks everyone for your advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tihMVlNb76A

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

[TheKillerChicken]

This brings me back to the horrifying "freespace" compressor for windows 95. I used it, it completely obliterated the operating system. NTFS comes with native compression at 4k aligned anyways, so just use that instead. NTFS compression is way more responsive on solid state storage than mechanical hard drives also. That faster you processor is and more cores it has, the better it can handle compressing/decompressing on the fly. I am hoping that ReFS (Resilient Filesystem) will have LZMA-like compression one day.

[Bedna]

Laughing in open source btrfs with configurable compression with multiple compression algorithms... ZLIB, LZO or ZSTD, you choose... xD (on my machine compression with ZSTD:10 actually makes my io faster than standard ZSTD:3, but it depends on what cpu you have)
But good to see people being aware of not using bs third party configuration tools for things already built into ntfs. :)