What is Disk Compression Software?
Disk compression software works behind the scenes to automatically compress and decompress files stored on a compacted disk drive. It is somewhat akin to data compression programs like WinZip™ or WinRAR™ that compress files into smaller footprints, but there is one major difference: disk compression software compresses the entire disk, rather than select files. Disk compression software was popular in the early to mid 1990s when the price of disk storage was relatively high and the average hard disk was 30 – 80 megabytes. Using a disk compression software package, one could essentially double the amount of data storage on a hard drive. Many users happily used disk compression with no problems, but for others the experience was sometimes problematic. One issue with some disk compression utilities was that corrupted files would be compressed in that state, potentially leading to even greater data loss upon decompression. Another problem was data loss due to user error. Disk compression s
