Jump to content

WinRAR compression rate


medp7060

Recommended Posts

I often find some RAR files are well compressed. No matter what setting I use to re-pack the files after unpacking, I never achieve the same small size again. Are there any tricks for that.

 

Here is an example: 

552 MB (578,834,974 bytes) from here:

 

Site: https://mega.nz
Sharecode: /#!WrxRWJrJ!7M2kx0kjJK7u4Pm_dS5kGr5SafaR-L2qqciUL3bmBUI

File name: TeraByte Drive Image Backup & Restore Suite 3.38_fu11.rar 

(password: softoroom)

Unpack and then re-pack with the best setting:

833 MB (874,099,004 bytes)

 

Thanks to TrojanK for correcting the link.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites


  • Replies 11
  • Views 1.5k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
39 minutes ago, medp7060 said:

 


https://mega.nz
share code: /gomeganzWrxRWJrJ!7M2kx0kjJK7u4Pm_dS5kGr5SafaR-L2qqciUL3bmBUI

(password: softoroom)

 

Correct link:

Site: https://mega.nz
Sharecode: /#!WrxRWJrJ!7M2kx0kjJK7u4Pm_dS5kGr5SafaR-L2qqciUL3bmBUI

File name: TeraByte Drive Image Backup & Restore Suite 3.38_fu11.rar

Link to comment
Share on other sites


In some case "WinRar" has a much better compression rate than "WinZip" or "7-ZIP". 

Here an extreme case with very big text files:  Test_big_files_till_4GB.rar  (WinRar compressed up to 4.53 MB! --> compression <0.11% ! ) 😮

Link to comment
Share on other sites


I think the question was how the original packed files was able to achieve that high compression rate, which I cannot reproduce. i.e. 552 MB vs 833 MB in the above example. The difference is huge!!!!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites


  • Administrator

Topic moved to Software Chat.

 

The place it was originally posted for is only for specific topics on the forums.

 

Please check the compression method that has been used in the file after downloading it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites


22 hours ago, hpwamr said:

In some case "WinRar" has a much better compression rate than "WinZip" or "7-ZIP". 

Here an extreme case with very big text files:  Test_big_files_till_2GB.rar  (WinRar compressed up to 2.89 MB! --> compression <0.06% ! ) 😮

 

hello, how can i doing this compression with winrar 5.80 x64? (best settings).

Link to comment
Share on other sites


On 3/21/2020 at 6:46 PM, xscorpionx said:

hello, how can i doing this compression with winrar 5.80 x64? (best settings).

 

The WinRar settings are "Out-of-the-box" (default).

But as already said, this is a case of extreme compression with txt files built with millions of repetitive lines.

In any case, only WinRar (RAR5) could produce such extreme compression.

With WinRar (RAR4), WinZip or 7-ZIP, the  compression for this case was around 110,000 to 180,000 MB.

 

Edited because the the test file is changed from 2GB to 4GB:   Test_big_files_till_4GB.rar  (WinRar compressed up to 4.53 MB! --> compression <0.11% ! ) 😮

Link to comment
Share on other sites


From my personal experiences, 7-Zip has always had the best compression.

So, it's my go-to app when I want the best compression. And it compresses faster than WinRAR too.

Link to comment
Share on other sites


On 3/20/2020 at 4:07 PM, medp7060 said:

Unpack and then re-pack with the best setting:

833 MB (874,099,004 bytes)

I got 552 MB (57,88,19,482 bytes) with the following settings using WinRAR v5.80..

Compression method: Best

Dictionary size: 512 MB

Create solid archive: Enabled

Link to comment
Share on other sites


3 hours ago, TrojanK said:

Compression method: Best

Dictionary size: 512 MB

Create solid archive: Enabled

Got almost the same but compression was very slow

Archive Format RAR (not RAR4)

Archiving options : Create Solid Archive

Compression method: Best

Dictionary size: 512 MB

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites


  • 2 weeks later...

The best settings for WinRAR to achieve maximum compression should be the following..
Enable RAR (RAR5), solid archive as well as set dictionary to max.

[imf]J0yZZPX.png[/img]

Link to comment
Share on other sites


I use the 7-Zip settings shown below to get me great results.

 

Note compression level, method, dictionary size, word size, block size, only one thread (slower but better), compress shared files

 

image.thumb.png.d60e1dba5b245b0dd8d7a409435522f8.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...