Freeing Up Capacity On An SSD With NTFS Compression

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Flash-based solid-state drives with more than 64 or 128 GB of capacity are fairly small, but they're still really expensive relative to hard drives. Compressing the Windows partition frees up some space, but is that really a good idea?

Benchmark Results: PCMark 7

PCMark 7 confirms that enabling NTFS compression leads to significantly higher data throughput when loading applications and in gaming scenarios, but in almost all other disciplines the lead is either small, on par with a uncompressed system drive, or even somewhat worse. The overall result, therefore, doesn't conclusively settle the matter.

Manuel Masiero