Wont fly level or stay in one spot for a reasonable amount of time XD
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got it, has a mind of its own and the only place it should fly is in the bin.
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it would have to make it first XD
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If it doesnāt Iām sure I can help it along XD
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Only 4 more hours left before a 250gb folder has been turn into a 7z archive 
Edit: It took 5 and a half hours to complete
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This is cool
before and after size? 7z should make it atleast 100GB unless your deal with uncompressable data
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It was lots files that couldnāt be compressed. The pre-archive folder was 283gb after archiving it was 270ish gb. I did it in hopes the file would turn out smaller but nope.
I would have just thrown it into a archive zip (no compression) to save CPU and RAM
I did it over night on my old desktop so it didnāt matter
Wow. SSDs are so cheap now, just picked up one from PNY for $40 for 240gb. The 480gb is like $60. Not bad. Had Amazon gift cards so got an SSD for my 2700X build (it only had hdds till now). In other news heading to the cities again for a few more Air Force tests and ofc tomorrow/tonight thereās supposed to be a blizzard lolā¦ And Iām supposed to be there at 0600 and I work today closing and tomorrow closing. Might get interesting.
Itās too bad I cant get work off but well thereās a reason I put in my two weeks notice.
Otherwise HI.
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Maybe I should get a 240gb ssd for my momās laptop and reclaim that 500gb hdd for a new torrent drive 
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I could use a big ssdā¦ my 2tb hitachi drive is most likely dying. When I moved Project Cars 2 off of it to my WD hdd it became playable again. 
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One day i would like a 2TB ssd. That day is not today
Prices will continue to drop. I told myself when 1TB drives hit $200 Iād buy one. Now theyāre $120 and Iām waiting for 2TB to be $200.
Does compressing/decompressing cause any loss of quality? (for FLAC and the likes)
nope it shouldnāt at all, the data that goes in should be the data that comes back out exactly. If you took a checksum of the files before and after compression/decompression youād see that theyād be the same.
Then how does compression work? Lower file size = less data, right? So something should be missing while itās compressed.
kinda yea the compression algorithm take he data and does some computation on it to decides on the best way to order the data so that it is smaller. Iām over simplifying a bit but this should go some way into explaining it, its for text but the principles are still mostly the same.
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Damn, thatās actually explained pretty easily and entertaining. I expected something dry and complicated, tbh. Not that I understand the entirety (Huffman Coding in detail), but at least for text it is a nice explanation.
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