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jerecho
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_ 		19. October 2008 @ 20:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have about 150gb of files i need archived. i am going to split these files up into dvd-5 size chunks for burning. my question is ok to choose the "fastest" option when compressing. is this not a recomended setting? will it just not compress as much as it could?
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nickberry
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_ 		20. October 2008 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
winrar will use a read-ahead method when compressing the data - the more read-ahead-ing its does the slower the process but the better the compression... so if you want it fastest it will have to do the least read-aheading, thus be less compressed...

make sense?
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jerecho
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_ 		20. October 2008 @ 16:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sweet, thanks for the explanation. disc space isn't a huge deal to me so the faster the better i guess. if i would have put it on the best method it would have taken like 3 days to compress! f that!
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