Originally posted by: glugglug
rar has best combination of compression ratio/speed/convenience/features.
7z gets better compression ratios.
BTW, zip has NO ADVANTAGES WHATSOEVER. WinRAR actually works with .zip files faster than WinZIP does.
And if you are going to create crappy .zip files, at least use 7-zip to do so..... Even with zip archives 7zip has about 10% better compression ratio than zip. If you use its own format it is more like half the size of a .zip, but much slower.
winrar takes longer to compress and decompress
but the compression is indeed better with winrar