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Heatshrink compressed drives? - Tamp ISO compression test (Announce)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 30.01.2025, 17:36
(edited by tom on 30.01.2025, 20:23)

> I am quite curious what the compressed sector size distributions are in
> your experience, also in relation to overall compression factors for the
> images as a whole.

Now if you find this so interesting, why don't you sit down yourself and code
at least your own test suite where you can easily change compression method, compression unit size, and offset table storage method yourself, rather than
always suggesting ways others should spend their time coding your projects.

<edited to add>Hint: compression ratio won't be impressive for a compression unit of 2048 Byte.
However, using a bigger unit of say 8KB, but this would require a bigger memory footprint.

Actually, I don't think .ISO files will compress great. They tend to have a high
portion of media files like .WAV, .mp3, .JPG and similar which doesn't compress at all.

So I suggest starting such a project by compressing your .ISO collection (with any compressor of your choice), rather than discussing compression methods.

 

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