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I'm taking a look at my FreeNAS server, and seeing that the file system compression is pretty effective. For example, I see a folder here that's 39GB, but only 30GB on disk. The CPU usage is very low ...

I'm curious. I've gotten ahold of ISO images and such that are RAR compressed, and will be X size in megabytes. I'll decompress them, and recompress them using the latest WinRAR, and mine generally ...

There's no getting around the fact that I'm running out of storage on my NAS. Unfortunately, right now is the worst time to buy more hard drives. It's impossible to justify the two- or even ...