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: 4 KB Random Reads/Writes (CrystalDiskMark)

Switching on the NTFS compression is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage for 4 KB random reads and writes.