It’s an amazing and true fact that the more heavy hard disk you have…the more it remains full….What I mean is simple….the more the capacity of your hard disk, the more loaded it is .Full of data, softwares, music n movies. It not only slows down your pc but performance is reduced too. And nowdays…all the stuffs have grown bigger and huge. This makes it more difficult to manage hard disk space. Yes you might have a dvd writer disc drive installed, but it doesn’t solves the problem upto much extent.
This bulky problem gets even worse when you have to download huge stuffs from the internet. So, all you want is everything to be compact. There are ripped versions available these days. These ripped versions are very small and compact specially resized and may have compressed upto any limit. The compression tools are a must now days. So this time, technobuzz review brings to you the ‘Best Compression Tools.’
What are they ? What about the file you have of size 100 mb resizd to 90 or even 80 or less mb. That’s compression and the tools do the same thing. These tools uses a compression algorithm and reduces the file size. Or even bind many files in a single archive and in reduced shape. Suppose you want to send a file to your friend through your 56 kb dial up connection of size 5 mb. If you don’t use such tool, will you send it directly ?? And how long it would take….. ?? So, he compression tool is a must even if you are not a professional. For your convenience and memory management.
Back in the day, WinZip was the dominate archiving and compression program available to Windows users. In the late 90’s a new format was beginning to emerge and take the world by storm, WinRAR. It was faster, more efficient, just better in every sense compared to WinZip. The interface for WinRAR was also much better than WinZip and there were so many options that one could implement with WinRAR such as data encryption, compression factors, and compression formats. This has been the dominate compression program of the technology inclined for the last few years, but recently a new program named 7-Zip has hit the scene.
WinZip :- WinZip, the original and most popular compression utility for windows, is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that binds and extracts files quickly to manage and conserve disk space and greatly reduce email.
WinRar :- WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRARs main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses,…
7Zip :- 7-Zip is a free software/open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows. In the form of p7zip, the command-line version of 7-Zip has been ported to Unix-like systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and AmigaOS. It can be made compatible with DOS by using the HX-DOS extender to run the Windows command-line version.
Peazip :- PeaZip is a file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows and Linux. The program features an archive browser interface with search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive’s content, and allows to apply fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive; a flat browsing mode is possible as alternative archive browsing method.
KGB Archiver:- This is a little demon and the king of all tools. It achieves a very high compression ratio at the cost of time and memory consumption. The only condition with it is you should have a high RAM in your PC and a lot of time. It is based on based on the PAQ6 compression Algorithm.
ARJ :- For creating high-efficiency compressed file archives. It supports handling of multi-volume archives (archives which are split into smaller files which are then suitable for dial-up transfers and floppy distribution).
UHarc :- UHarc is a solid, high-compression 386+ DOS and Windows file archiver with multimedia support. It is written by Uwe Herklotz and is available in binary form, free only for non-commercial use.
The above are the seven most popular and efficient compression tools for archiving and compressing data. Out of which, winzip, winrar and 7Zip are most commonly used by general users, not professional. Whereas the UHARC and KGB Archivers are very high compression tools, used by professionals who want some serious compressions. These tools are free of cost…….but if you want professional features you have to buy them. Except winzip…..following pole suggests that that winrar and 7zip are best….
New Uses for Archiving
The torrent community has embraced archiving programs with open arms for good reason. Besides cutting down on the file size in general, it is much easier to manage torrents when you are downloading a single file or a split file in equal pieces. This second ability is crucial for torrents as it will permit you to download chunks of the file at a time while still giving you the benefit of file compression. Another common use for this file splitting is fitting very large files onto size limited mediums. It is possible to break up a 20 gigabyte file and store it on 30 CDs and then reassemble the file later when you need it. I personally have archived my entire data drive and then put it on DVDs when I perform risky overclocks on my desktop. Other uses for compression and archiving are always popping up, for example HTTP, the protocol that delivers web pages supports the gzip algorithm, helping websites cut down on bandwidth by compressing the data before sending it out.
More applications to come…
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