Flash-based solid-state drives with more than 64 or 128 GB of capacity are fairly small, but they're still really expensive relative to hard drives. Compressing the Windows partition frees up some space, but is that really a good idea?
Benchmark Results: SYSmark 2012
BAPCo's SYSsmark 2012 application benchmark suite also shows that enabling NTFS compression is neither completely good or bad, though most results favor the configuration without compression enabled.
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