Save Data compressed (i.e. MDF4.1 compressed) to reduce disk space

[MS_DC]

Preparatory having compressed TDM(s), the ready defined MDF4.1 could be used to save disk space.

[Walter_Rick]

Hello

Thank you for your request. R&D has read this suggestion and it will be included in feature planning discussions for future DIAdem versions.

Greetings

Walter

[az_ltr]

Up vote for me.

It would be very helpful to have a transparent option to store data compressed if enabled and beneficial probably on the channel data and leave the properties raw available to be quickly indexed.   Then a lower priority process checks to see what type of compression is optimal including none to channel waveform data.  I think at least for the datasets that I have seen compression ratio is on order of 2-5% so instead of 655MB files I have 12MB files.  Much smaller to archive and transport from the DataFinder to DIAdem.

Adding file properties to auto archive after not being accessed in X days might be helpful too.

[Walter_Rick]

With installing the latest MDF4 DataPlugin a MDF4-zip DataPlguin is registerd on the system to save MDF4 compressed bulk data blocks (DZBlock). The defautl "MDF4" DataPlugin do not save compressed bulk data blocks.

Greetings

Walter