On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:00 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote:

> Compressing and uncompressing is SLOWER
> Than using uncompressed files.

Actually, that used to be a consideration back in the old days of  
slow chips.  With today's machines the difference is not even  
detectable.

> With 250GB hard drives costing under $100
> Why bother with slow compression?? (That's what I say, I
> Now have about 560GB of HDD on my PC, the 1 Terabyte
> Threshold will be reached soon no doubt).

I'm a professional photographer.  I have over 1800 GB of HD storage  
right now, and I'm going to need to add more soon.  Regardless of  
whether drive space is relatively cheap or not, I want to make  
optimum use of it.

Bob


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