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: 512 KB Random Reads/Writes (CrystalDiskMark)

NTFS compression actually provides significantly better performance in random 512 KB writes. The random read performance advantages are barely measurable, however.