Black Hole compression rocks!

[Red Squirrel]

Check out this crazy compression! It's all text files, but that's still pretty good.




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[Chris Vogel]

Dear namespaces! That is quite good. Have you tried the 7-Zip format? I was under the impression that it had a higher compression ratio, but I haven’t really compared the two.

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah tried it, and black hole is better. 7-zip is faster though which is good for normal compression, but for archiving smaller = better. When I need to compress like over 20 gigs I usually just let it on overnight since it can take like an hour so I don't want to sit there with a slow PC for that long. This particular compression took about 15-20 minutes.

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[wldkos]

crap , that's 4 gigs down to 300 mb! Is this safe?

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[Red Squirrel]

yep! From my experience anyway. Only thing is that it's slow like I mentioned, and not allot of programs support it since it's not really well known. I use power archiver which has winzip and most other utlities beat in terms of supported formats and features.

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[jryan]

Haha! You've converted at last! I've been using BH for almost two years now... I was waiting for a new convert to the fold. lol.

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah was using it a bit here and there but I've been using it way more lately for archiving stuff. Imagine this, I could fit 10 gigs of logs or other text files on a CD with bh!

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