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Message: [QUOTE="jakecr, post: 61102, member: 29419"] That thread was very interesting, I too use 7zip/LZMA2 and ECM when archiving my files for the most space-savings, I have a 96TB NAS full of games archived like that but for use on my PC I keep them as chd files for easier use and for my frontends, I love watching my collection neatly organized and with their respective covers, ready for use at a moments notice just like my real-life shelf. It is also important to keep the original files around intact as CHDs are not completely lossless 100%, there's an issue where it can't properly recreate the cue files, that was a long time ago so I don't know if it has been fixed but it was a long-standing issue. Also it's good to have the bin/cue/iso files if you want to apply hacks to them. That's a good point that I never thought about, CHDs are certainly better for torrents. In fact some communities don't allow compressed archives for the reasons you stated and also because they hide what the torrent truly contains and cannot be scanned by anti-virus programs like virustotal etc, specially if it contains a password that's a big NO-NO pretty much everywhere. [automerge]1738487132[/automerge] For CHD Zstandard does give better results than LZMA and has faster compression/decompression, I do wish CHD supported LZMA2, which is way slower but compresses better in most cases, though it would probably be pretty slow on slower PCs and slow drives for real-time use. [/QUOTE]

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