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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

