There are still people who compress files to reduce their size but not to save disk space it is utilized for faster uploading or downloading to the internet. And even if you manage to outgrow your current capacity, the cost of new drives with insanely high capacities is so low.
In today’s world, hard disk space has really gone up exponentially, and disk space is no longer a concern for most people. It was only very popular among the intellectuals and the people who really had great disk space problems. Even if it offered several more advantages compared to winzip, the rar format did not overtake winzip in terms of general use. It was also the first to introduce features that extended its capabilities, including context menu integration and archive spanning. Winrar is relatively new compared to winzip but it has proven itself to be quite a performer in compressing files, regularly outperforming its rival in almost every file type existent. Winzip was first on the scene and has ever since enjoyed its overall popularity. With the introduction of windows, the makers of the software that compresses into these formats created GUIs for windows. Zip and rar are two of the most well known compression formats in the world, with the former being the leader. Compression allowed people to store more in less space. When hard disk space was prime realty and buying extra hard disk drives is way over budget. So.Compressing files have been a very essential process some time ago. I expect that 7zip able to compress the folder around 20% better than winrar, but fact is fact. I don’t expect 7zip to beat winrar this bad actually. I am pretty surprise with this result honestly. So, from almost 80 MB, 7zip able to compress the whole folder to merely 14 MB. 43% of what winrar could do (in term of size). Enough with this blubbering, let see the result. 7zip is a free and open source (this is the best part, nothing to hide, they even could provide you the whole source code if you need), no nagging screen, uber small size and under opensourge umbrella. 7zip able to support rar and zip, it is not zip format. So is it worth to spend some money to get this software? Hold on until you see what 7zip can do.ħzip is not zip. 32.3 MB vs 35.3 MB (3 MB smaller than normal windows pre-installed zip compressor.). Yay, WinRar able to shrink the files better. After that, it will keep showing the nag screen until you purchase the software, unless you crack it :D)
You may download it from the rarlab with 30 days trial period. Let see if it still able to amuse us with its magic (Winrar is not a free software. Now, let move on to all time exotic compressor, named winrar. Default format for this kind of compression is zip.Īs you might see, Windows zip compressor, compress 79.6 MB files into 35.3 MB. OK, now let compress it using windows compression utility (Via right click on that folder –> Send To –> Compress Folder). Folder size 79.6 MB but will cost me 84 MB on my hdd (4kb cluster NTFS).įor those who are interested to know what folder it is, it is 4th planet patch folder for Rose Online game. Here is the original folder, consist of 1370 files and 126 folder. compressor like PowerArchiever, WinAce etc) (You can do yours to compare with your fav. When you want to compress your files and folders, are you still using plain windows zip utility? Or already move to more exotic paid program like WinRar? Or you actually already join free and open source community, using 7zip? For this very own purpose, I made a short complete test.