So, from almost 80 MB, 7zip able to compress the whole folder to merely 14 MB. 43% of what winrar could do (in term of size). Enough with this blubbering, let see the result. 7zip is a free and open source (this is the best part, nothing to hide, they even could provide you the whole source code if you need), no nagging screen, uber small size and under opensourge umbrella. 7zip able to support rar and zip, it is not zip format. So is it worth to spend some money to get this software? Hold on until you see what 7zip can do.ħzip is not zip.
32.3 MB vs 35.3 MB (3 MB smaller than normal windows pre-installed zip compressor.). Yay, WinRar able to shrink the files better. After that, it will keep showing the nag screen until you purchase the software, unless you crack it :D) You may download it from the rarlab with 30 days trial period. Let see if it still able to amuse us with its magic (Winrar is not a free software. Now, let move on to all time exotic compressor, named winrar. Default format for this kind of compression is zip.Īs you might see, Windows zip compressor, compress 79.6 MB files into 35.3 MB. OK, now let compress it using windows compression utility (Via right click on that folder –> Send To –> Compress Folder). Folder size 79.6 MB but will cost me 84 MB on my hdd (4kb cluster NTFS).įor those who are interested to know what folder it is, it is 4th planet patch folder for Rose Online game. Here is the original folder, consist of 1370 files and 126 folder. compressor like PowerArchiever, WinAce etc) (You can do yours to compare with your fav. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.When you want to compress your files and folders, are you still using plain windows zip utility? Or already move to more exotic paid program like WinRar? Or you actually already join free and open source community, using 7zip? For this very own purpose, I made a short complete test. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. ArchiverĬompression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. You can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.įILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6. the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.
Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR and Z. Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License.
The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Download 7-Zip 23.01 () for Windows: Linkħ-Zip is free software with open source. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.