Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
> We live in a post-file-system-compression world.<p>You'd think so, but allow me to point at my steamapps folder saving 20% disk space even with the not-very-good compression that NTFS offers.  If it could use a better algorithm and a block size of 2MB instead of 64KB, it could nearly double that.<p>Hard drives have always been growing in size.  We have always been in a 'post-file-system-compression' world.  But people want to do things like fit on an SSD, so compression continues to be useful.<p>I just wish it didn't ultra-fragment files <i>on purpose</i>.