How many of you boast yourself to be nerds like me. It's obnoxious sometimes to say yourself nerds when you actually know that you are a novice and real nerds are out there. Anyways nothing better having the feeling that you are nerds and I have succeeded in making myself happy thinking of being a nerd.
Coming to the point though. Now that you are nerd I am sure you face the same problem of exhausting hard disk space. We all know that most of the space is used by your fetish porn collection ! lol. Let's face it. Even if you were given 1 TB of disk space and a 100 mbps LAN, I am sure you would be running out of the disk space pretty soon. So coming to the real stuff, there's a compression utility called as KGB Archiver. This is not a new kid on the block but for sure deserves the right for being on the wall of fame.
Just to tell you this freak of an utility can compress data in a ratio that's unbelievable. I have Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 Ultimate compressed in a 4 MB file. Are you shocked! Give it a try for yourself.
Here are some test results from the site which is the home to this amazing utility.
Let me warn you though, the home page says something like this KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human.
Also, I once tried decompressing a 4 GB file archived using KGB and it took me 7 hours to decompress with a good high end PC. However, I've never tried compressing data using KGB. So Hold on please. Next time you crib of running out hard disk space, think again!
Coming to the point though. Now that you are nerd I am sure you face the same problem of exhausting hard disk space. We all know that most of the space is used by your fetish porn collection ! lol. Let's face it. Even if you were given 1 TB of disk space and a 100 mbps LAN, I am sure you would be running out of the disk space pretty soon. So coming to the real stuff, there's a compression utility called as KGB Archiver. This is not a new kid on the block but for sure deserves the right for being on the wall of fame.
Just to tell you this freak of an utility can compress data in a ratio that's unbelievable. I have Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 Ultimate compressed in a 4 MB file. Are you shocked! Give it a try for yourself.
Here are some test results from the site which is the home to this amazing utility.
| Format | Size | Ratio |
| Uncompressed text data | 19900KB | 100% |
| ZIP, maximum compression | 4922KB | 24,7% |
| ZIP, Deflate64, maximum compression | 4865KB | 24,4% |
| CAB, LZX - maximum compression | 3559KB | 17,9% |
| BZIP2, dictionary 900KB | 3399KB | 17,1% |
| RAR, maximum compression, solid archive | 3220KB | 16,2% |
| UHA, maximum compression, dictionary 32MB, multimedia compression | 3171KB | 15,9% |
| 7zip, ultra compression, solid archive, dictionary 48MB, word size 255B | 2726KB | 13,7% |
| SQX2.0, ultra compression, dictionary 32MB, solid archive, multimedia & EXE compression | 2631KB | 13,2% |
| KGB, normal compression | 2339KB | 11,8% |
| KGB, medium compression* | 1543KB | 7,8% |
Let me warn you though, the home page says something like this KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human.
Also, I once tried decompressing a 4 GB file archived using KGB and it took me 7 hours to decompress with a good high end PC. However, I've never tried compressing data using KGB. So Hold on please. Next time you crib of running out hard disk space, think again!
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