USB Flash Drive Compressing
 

Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive?

"Ron" wrote in message
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Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive?


Yeah, when I sat on one. It broke ;-)

Seriously, are you're talking about either compressing files on a file
system, or a filesystem with built-in compression capabilities?

Rob

Rob Turk wrote:
"Ron" wrote in message
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Has anyone had experience with compressing USB flash memory drive?



Yeah, when I sat on one. It broke ;-)

Seriously, are you're talking about either compressing files on a file
system, or a filesystem with built-in compression capabilities?

Rob



I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type USB
drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture already
employ some type of compression?

Ron wrote:

I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type
USB drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture
already employ some type of compression?

Highly unlikely that the drive is already compressing given the capacities
that they come in, i.e. 128MB, 256MB etc, these are nice round memory
capacity figures which would be difficult to accomplish with a variable
compression scheme.


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Nik Simpson

Nik Simpson wrote:
Ron wrote:

I was wondering if the files can be compressed on memory stick type
USB drive as if it were a hard drive or does the current arcitecture
already employ some type of compression?
For storing JPEG files, the compression is already there (per file).
So, for at least the original use of these memory devices, futher
compression should not expect to find a lot of redundancy.

For other uses, therefore, compression should help.