ZIPmagic Launches Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression

ZIPmagic from ZIPmagic Software ‘s Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression technology reduces the disk footprint of the fresh Windows 10 OS down to 5GB from the original 10GB.

Compression benefits extend to all apps and data stored on disk, with similar expectations for compression of user files very reasonable.

While Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression is time intensive when first processing a disk, disk read speeds past the point of original compression are actually accelerated, even on very fast SSD hardware. Write speeds are only marginally slowed down, because Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression uses the modern parallel processing power of CPUs to minimize any possible overhead.

In exchange for this one-time trade-off, Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression compresses a clean install of Windows 10 at a 2.3:1 ratio, meaning 2.3 times the data can be stored on disk as would be otherwise possible. The compression ratio is also user adjustable (to prepare for storing highly compressible data), with Windows projecting a disk capacity and free space increase in proportion to the user selected ratio.

For example, the LZS100 algorithm designed for data disks compresses VM libraries at a 4.1:1 compression ratio, meaning an SSD with capacity for only 128GB gets to store 525GB. Continuing the earlier Windows 10 example, which was achieved with the LZS90 algorithm designed for boot disks; a 2.3:1 compression ratio means a 128GB SSD acts like a far more spacious 295GB SSD!

Other algorithms included in ZIPmagic are LZS80 and LZS85, designed for runtime, live processing of Windows disks – without having to shut down or restart the OS, or any of the applications running on the OS. It is also possible to use LZS80 and LZS85 remotely, without physical access to a PC. This makes them ideal for use on remote, virtual or private servers.

Lempel-Ziv-Simon Disk Compression includes a one-click wizard which automatically selects the right compression algorithm to use, from amongst the four previously mentioned possibilities. The InstallAware setup wizard itself makes it a single-click to install or uninstall ZIPmagic, supporting all OSs from Windows XP through to Windows Server 2016, whether 32 bit or 64 bit, from a single setup package.

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