WinRAR vs Zip vs 7zip vs Others

[squareD]

Don't know what this discussion is for?
RAR, ZIP, 7Z or whatever, they all are doing their best.

Having 1 735 512 Bytes or 1 386 999 Bytes isn't so much important in time of fast internet.

I'm mostly using WinRAR, it's fast, small archives, it's secure and rebuilding a damaged archive is really working sometimes...

May be I'm on wrong way, but why should I change my archiver?

[atom0s]

Originally Posted by squareD

Don't know what this discussion is for?
RAR, ZIP, 7Z or whatever, they all are doing their best.

Having 1 735 512 Bytes or 1 386 999 Bytes isn't so much important in time of fast internet.

I'm mostly using WinRAR, it's fast, small archives, it's secure and rebuilding a damaged archive is really working sometimes...

May be I'm on wrong way, but why should I change my archiver?

Not every one has fast internet. Such as myself. I live in the middle of no where and my net caps at a whopping 150kb/s. So every bit helps with saving space for me to make downloads faster.

[DMichael]

Originally Posted by atom0s

Not every one has fast internet. Such as myself. I live in the middle of no where and my net caps at a whopping 150kb/s. So every bit helps with saving space for me to make downloads faster.

try PeaZip it supports even more drastic compression formats

[atom0s]

Originally Posted by DMichael

try PeaZip it supports even more drastic compression formats

From the look of it PeaZip is just a front-end for other archivers. Does it offer its own format as well? Don't see anything mentioned on their site for a custom format though.

Either way, looks like a nice alternative UI for all the archives.
Thanks for the link.