Compression Files at it best

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Winzip, WinRar or 7zip




Posted by expertester on June 1, 2008


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.
(You can do yours to compare with your fav. compressor like
PowerArchiever, WinAce etc)

Here is the original folder, consist of 1370 files and 126 folder.
Folder size 79.6 MB but will cost me 84 MB on my hdd (4kb cluster NTFS).



For
those who are interested to know what folder it is, it is 4th planet
patch folder for Rose Online game. You can get it from net.





OK, now let compress it using windows
compression utility (Via right click on that folder –> Send To –>
Compress Folder). Default format for this kind of compression is zip.








As you might see, Windows zip compressor, compress 79.6 MB files into 35.3 MB. Not to shabby huh. More than half.



Now, let move on to all time exotic
compressor, named winrar. Let see if it still able to amuse us with its
magic (Winrar is not a free software. You may download it from the
rarlab with 30 days trial period. After that, it will keep showing the
nag screen until you purchase the software, unless you crack it )








Yay, WinRar able to shrink the files
better. 32.3 MB vs 35.3 MB (3 MB smaller than normal windows
pre-installed zip compressor.). So is it worth to spend some money to
get this software? Hold on until you see what 7zip can do.



7zip is not zip. 7zip able to support
rar and zip, it is not zip format. 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. Enough with this blubbering, let see the
result.





Holly Cow… 13.9 MB only. Do you believe that. 43% of what winrar could do (in term of size).



So, lets recap :


Non Compress : 79.6 MB

Zip (Free) : 35.3 MB

WinRar (Paid) : 32.3 MB

7zip (Free + OS) : 13.9 MB

So, from almost 80 MB, 7zip able to compress the whole folder to
merely 14 MB. That is quite an achievement. I am pretty surprise with
this result honestly. I don’t expect 7zip to beat winrar this bad
actually. I expect that 7zip able to compress the folder around 20%
better than winrar, but fact is fact. 7zip just blow them away.

So..where can i download this 7zip utility ?

Here : http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

What type of files are there in the folder? I mean in general

wow.. that is cool.. can u have the rose evo. with the solarose compiled in that zip.... please.. i wanna download it... with using 7zip file...

yeah, we have those already. Under guide section, Betrayed compress 1.2 GB rose file to become 450 MB.

And upload it already.



@kakafluff, generally files on the folder contain oro planet which include data, texture, graphics etc. Thing that rose client need to display Orlo planet.

hmm.... I downloaded the 7-zip file and and do this step

1.) Send to ---> Compressed Folder

2.) Right click the file (I added 1 notepad because it can't be compressed to .rar if only 1 file) ---> add to [filename].rar

3.) Right Click the file ---> 7-zip ---> add to [filename].7zip

Here is my recap for the file size:

Non Compress: 452, 552kb or 441mb

Zip: 224, 417kb or 219mb

Rar: 224, 157kb or 218mb

7-zip: 227, 087 or 221mb

I was exptecting that it will reduce to half but ...
I don't know if I just downloaded wrong installer or had something wrong with compressing using 7-zip.

I guess different file types etc compress differently, but personally, i prefer 7z also. Maybe you could check what compression ratio to use and set it to maximum if you want it to be smaller?

yep I'm trying to make it small size. hmm. what do you mean by setting the compression ratio to maximum?

so far all i can see in archive are: compression level, compressin method, Dictionary size, word size, solid block size, number of CPU threads(I think no need to modify this one),

Holy crap Admin, you smart hoe. (: I prefer WinRar,
just used to it hehe.