Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

Rod Taylor wrote:
>> I habitually turn off all compression on my Windows boxes, because it's 
>> a performance hit in my experience. Disk is cheap ...
>>     
>
> Disk storage is cheap. Disk bandwidth or throughput is very expensive.
>   

Sure, but in my experience using Windows File System compression is not 
a win here. Presumably if it were an unqualified win they would have it 
turned on everywhere. The fact that there's an option is a good 
indication that it isn't in many cases. It is most commonly used for 
files like executables that are in effect read-only - but that doesn't 
help us.

cheers

andrew