Freeing Up Capacity On An SSD With NTFS Compression

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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: Sequential Read And Write (CrystalDiskMark)

With NTFS compression enabled, the Samsung drive demonstrates slightly worse performance in sequential data reads. The drop in sequential write performance is very clear, however. The resulting fragmentation during compression by sparse clusters does not seem to be crucially affecting throughput, though the difference is measurable.