are you archiving? (e.g., hundreds of documents, thousands of code files, or large video files?)
will you need to open single files from this archive? Revisiting 7-ZIP - Coding Horror Talk through one's backside.7z
Ideal for long-term storage where file access is rare. are you archiving
Good for sending large, read-only data sets where maximum compression is prioritized over file access speed. are you archiving? (e.g.
It can achieve much smaller file sizes than traditional archives. For instance, a 2GB folder of similar files can be reduced to 130MB. Drawbacks:
Extracting a single file from the middle of a large solid archive requires decompressing everything that came before it.
It is highly beneficial for archiving many small files with similar content (e.g., source code, log files, repetitive backups).