Help with Win XP Drive Compression

[greigmg]

I have a 320gb drive filled 95% with .wav files. I'd like to squeeze as much on there as possible, so I'm tempted to hit the check next to "compress this drive to save disk space."

Is anyone familiar with Win XP's compression? Any estimate on how much space it saves? Any comments are appreciated, thanks.

 

[quackerww]

I would not do it.

 

[jasonlclei]

i would go for rar; just compressing certain files/folders instead of the whole drive

 

[greigmg]

Care to elaborate?

I don't want to compress individual folders into a different file format - I'd like them to stay easily accessible so I can stream the audio across the network.

 

[greigmg]

Well, I tried to compress a folder (1.5gb) with winzip just to see - it took my Duron 600mhz a really, really long time. Looks like I'll just be adding more drives.