What are the pros and cons on compressing old files on a disk? I've read that compressing old files will degrade the performance when accessing the compressed files. I've got gigabytes of old files in my laptop; is it worth the trade-off?
I have the following installed on this laptop (it's my playground/test system):
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
- SQL Server Express
- Informatica PowerCenter v7.x
- Oracle 9i
- Toad for Oracle
- VS 2008 Professional Edition
- VS 2005 Professional Edition