I not too long ago arrived to understand there are lots of people over the web who compress files to these an extent that gigabytes truly worth of information could be compressed to some hundred megabytes, which is how they share software and online games which demand a lot of space. In fact one particular of my close friend told me that he identified Winrar, which needs additional than 10 gigabytes of difficult disk, compressed to about 400 MB!

I tried employing WinZip and 7 zip and compressed a 1 GB file in the most compression stage, however the effects had been not quite as envisioned. I had been only able to avoid wasting close to 100 megabytes when extremely compression with 7z format was utilised.

So I Googled close to with search phrases such as "best compression tool" and "maximum compression" but only observed references to winrar 5.40 ****, WinZip and & 7 zip. Finally I uncovered a software worthy of being called an " Winrar". It is called Winrar Archiver and links to its homepage are given below.

Unique features of Winrar:

one. Its free!!

2. High compression rates in different formats including zip, 7 zip, bz2, its own format which is the most powerful, and lots of a lot more.

3. Easy to use, includes option to vary the stage of compression.

4. It is available for both Windows and Linux( Newer versions are not available for Linux though)

But there is a problem which might put you off from employing this software. The winrar **** necessitates a very high amount of hardware and the process of compressing and decompressing is extremely slow if high compression levels are used. Decompressing 10-20 megabytes of data can easily take a couple of hours. It is a big CPU hogger!

Nevertheless, if you want to store your important data on some remote server, or if the storage is limited, it is value giving a try.
I discovered another important aspect of compression. You cannot compress an already compressed file. I attempted compressing the same archive multiple times but instead of shrinking in size the archive got bigger! On looking up around the web I found that there is a limit till which you can compress a file. It is called the "Shannon limit".

Moreover compressing videos and music formats will not be as efficient as compared to normal text documents and maybe executables. It is the nature of videos and music formats that much of the information is needed and it is difficult to reconstruct them back. Compression of this sort of video and audio formats leads to irrecoverable loss in quality.

In my experience winrar **** is the ideal compression software, keeping speed, ease of use, efficiency, and functionality in mind. It can pack and unpack information in different formats and with different levels of compression and decompression. It is a very user friendly resource, free of bugs and the most effective part free to download!