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Message: [QUOTE="jakecr, post: 75172, member: 29419"] Offering CHDs besides the compressed bin/cue/isos etc doesn't make much sense since it will just take more storage space on the hosting server for what's basically the same data. The only way it makes sense it'd be to only exclusively offer CHDs. Also unlike zip/7z/rar CHD is not 100% completely lossless, there are cases when some info can be lost or modified when converting back to the og format so most people would want to have the original bin/cue/iso around especially if you want to apply hacks/patches which afaik only work with the og files. Although like someone said earlier CHDs really make a lot of sense for torrents (not so much for direct downloads) since they're a ready to be used format that decompresses on the fly while still maintaining good compression ratios unlike zip/rar/7z with little to no compression (Storage mode) that can also be used without decompressing, that way seeding is easier as people don't end with 2 copies with one of them not usable-as-is which is the one that people will tend to delete. [/QUOTE]

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