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: Launching Applications, Windows Startup And Shutdown

Enabling NTFS compression slows down our test setup slightly (but measurably) when launching applications, adding a second on average.

While booting Windows with NTFS compression enabled is slightly faster, the system shutdown process takes significantly more time, adding about four seconds.