Theory on how make File size smaller?

[xBlazex]

Theory on how make File size smaller? I just wonder why no one figure way make data compress smaller to point only be like 5 mb when you extract going to 30gb. i think figure way to make data smaller will help use less room on harddrive and dont need to make harddrive space bigger and less time download big files

[ApocaRUFF]

Data is already as small as it can be, we just need to make devices that can hold more data and retain a smaller size. And we're getting there.In twenty years, probably less, something as small as a pinky nail will be able to hold tens or hundreds of TB of data.



The actual data is already made up of bits or bytes or w/e, which is the smallest unit possible for data.

MB, GB, TB, etc... are all just ways of "shortening" things, so we don't have to say "One hundred thousand four hundred and fifty point zero six bytes/bits/whatnot of data". Instead we can say that in GB's and it would be smaller.


I don't know how many bytes are in a KB, or in a MB, or GB, etc... I just know that's how it works.

[SourChicken]

KGB Archiver..

Have you been living under a rock?

[olaph]

KGB Archiver..

Have you been living under a rock?

Apparently, however using KGB is a waste cause barely anyone even knows it exists.

[xBlazex]

I doubt you can compress much more than we actually can, you know, you're talking about datas, ones and zeros, it's there, it's information, we can't make it ... disappear, there's no magical little box where you can seal all that stuff really, you can't make it ''smaller'' for real the way it is. Compression is not squishing it so it's "smaller".

If you take 30 millions of ones and zeros, there's no actual way you can turn it into 3 one and zeros, how the **** would you extrapoliate from there ? It is possible to compress alot, but I want you to understand, there is a limit.

Right now compressing alot and then extracting takes an eternity.

The problem right now is not really with the compression, compression would make everything slow, it's actually a size optimisation problem, a good example of this could be image formats, comparing a high quality jpeg (yes, they do exist, it's great, even though image hosting sites tend to turn them to low quality to save some space) a png and a bitmap picture, in most cases, the quality of the picture will be the exact same for all of those, but the bmp picture will be much larger than the png and the png much larger than the jpeg.

Overall though, size isn't much of a problem, we have blue rays that are what, 40 gb large ? We can get a hard drive of 3 tera for ~150$
I can transfer a 5 gb file from my hard drive to my external hard drive in about a minute. Mind you usb3 is NOT the fastest thing out there.

*looks at the fact this thread is in the lounge...* ... did I just get trolled ?

i only post topic i want to talk about in the lounge because general use for news information

i dont care about the post count. i wish just remove that.

[darknight55]

Theory on how make File size smaller? I just wonder why no one figure way make data compress smaller to point only be like 5 mb when you extract going to 30gb. i think figure way to make data smaller will help use less room on harddrive and dont need to make harddrive space bigger and less time download big files

First thing first, do u understand how data is stored in the first place?

[SnOwBunZz]

If you take 30 millions of ones and zeros, there's no actual way you can turn it into 3 one and zeros

Only the first 1 on the left matter. If it's the 250 character on that line, you have 249 leading zeroes that usually can be removed, saving 249 bits or 0.2 bytes or 0.0002 kb. :|

i only post topic i want to talk about in the lounge because general use for news information

i dont care about the post count. i wish just remove that.

General = serious discussions, whatever that might be.
Lounge = spam allowed and non-serious discussions.

So...
This thread is now about wombats!

[fenix40k]

So...
This thread is now about wombats!

No! Its about snow cats!




@thread..blaze seems to be a bit confused..he is still using the lounge
for his "serious" business

i only post topic i want to talk about in the lounge because general use for news information

you rlly missunderstand the whole section...its the other way round.
You wanna talk about smth? general. You wanna post news`? general. You wanna post crazy shiat? lounge

ah and like the others said allready...its not rlly the compression its
more about the place to save your files ^^

[Darc]

How is babby formed?

[Solray]

How is babby formed?

From cabbages

[Cy-Kill]

Theory on how make File size smaller? I just wonder why no one figure way make data compress smaller to point only be like 5 mb when you extract going to 30gb. i think figure way to make data smaller will help use less room on harddrive and dont need to make harddrive space bigger and less time download big files

You can always use UHARC:

http://www.klaimsoft.com/winuha/

[Kw1q51lv3r_Vorian]

The more you dick around with a piece of data, like doing compression and copying it, the higher the chance it will be corrupted.