RAR

force of habit

people compressing with it today are likely concerned with performance over ratio.
WinRAR is lot faster than 7zip and if that matters to your workload somehow, that could a reason to use it.

Personally, I just use 7zip and 7z/LZMA2

>nice GUI
>allright compression ratio
>good speed
>splitting an archive to smaller sizes in case you need to split a large file in CD or DVD media or whatever
>it just werkz

this, nobody cares about extra 1% compression if it takes twice the time.

zip is even faster and both major OS's support it without external programs

Are you the same guy on the 16gb RAM thread? You are really that bored huh

>nice GUI
....GUI? get fucked
>allright compression ratio
allright is not enough
>good speed
t. pentium
>splitting an archive to smaller sizes in case you need to split a large file in CD or DVD media or whatever
both are obsolete so yeah
>it just werkz
i give you that

>....GUI? get fucked

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it's free.

Its the best kind of free

"remember to register after 30 days :) " kind of free

but after 600 days its still going on, you only have to put up with the pop up screen when you start winrar

recovery records

Or if yo're not retarded you put the license text file you copied from some website in the proggie's directory

Winrar.with.crack.rar

7zip is a meme too.

Everything should just be zip. Having an extra extra 5% compression is moot. Zip just werks everywhere out of the box.

Most people use it as a way to bundle files together rather than compression anyway.

>proggie
I have just sent you a pm explaining why you cant say that.

Unless you're the man called Jow Forums you cannot forbid me to do that.

Like I'm gonna listen to someone who hates dogs.

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partly this, also nostalgia

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this makes my brain stop

7zip does have that though, it's 7zip -> extract to \*

>rawr
:3

this. The amount of retards on this board is breath taking. RAR5's compression ratio is on par with 7z and the biggest difference is that extracting files is a million times faster with RAR than with 7z. 7z is a pile of shit, literally.

askwoody.com/2018/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-7-zip/

Only the windows version is affected, so who cares

There was a time its volume management and compression ratio was the best.

Nowadays nobody uses it for multi-volume archives and its compression ratio is similar to 7zip, so there's no point using it.

It gets by on name recognition like, I dunno, McAfee Anti Virus.

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Isn't it shipping with ASLR with the latest releases?

>using the graphical interface instead of the command line tool

What?

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how out of touch with reality are you, user? none of us use that shit but 15mb 7z or 70mb rar archive is one and the same to a normie.

get. the. fuck. out. of. this. board you fucking mommy kid nigger fucking piece of shit spamming idiot, you are not even fucking funny, you are just copy of my shit that i pooped yesterday you useless piece of spamming junk.
its not fucking /b/ you stupid cunt

>optical media is dead!!!1!

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sent ;)

>16
this fucker posted under every thread possible here

I abandoned my blog but this will help understand things. Probably only I have a benchmark of this on earth.

hctechbyte.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/the-super-benchmark-winrar-5-31-vs-7-zip-16-02/

For me it provides the best ratio of compression to performance.

i don't trust this man

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Why would they change? There isn't anything better at the moment. A scene release is intended to be bit-perfect in 100 years. All storage mediums and all non-ECC ram have a non-zero chance of causing bit errors, and because normal file systems (i.e. anything except for refs, zfs etc) don't hash the files and do crc checks, there is no way to know if any given file is a bit for bit perfect copy of the original. The longer a file is stored and the more times it's copied, the higher the risk of delta between the original file at creation and the copy.

Hence, winrar. It offers file hashing, crc check, and recovery using xor in one package. Delete bits randomly in a scene winrar file with a hex editor and winrar will opon opening it complain about corruption and let you fix it with the embeded parity data (unless the damage is greater than the available parity data).

It's like having ECC and ZFS, except it's on the file level and not the file system and hardware level.

Brainlets wouldn't understand tho

That's pretty cool
thanks for posting

No problem :^)
Anyone else needs help?

>splitting an archive to smaller sizes in case you need to split a large file in CD or DVD media or whatever

That's not the intended purpose

The intended purpose is to let you download a big file in chunks so if your connection breaks before the download is finished you don't have to start downloading from scratch.

It's also intended for backup. It allows you to pool together chunks from different sources. So if your DVD get a scratch, you can gett all the parts except for the part which is stored on the damaged part of the DVD, thrn get that part from an HDD or other source. Then you can extract the file.

With embeded recovery record you can even extract the entire file even if one or a few parts are missing.

How great is that?

>Only download to a large file is split between 10 rar files
>One of the links is dead and now I'm fucked

wew

>Real talk about the excellent features of WinRar
>Thread dies

Why is /b/ so shitty

same reason people still buy Intel CPUs.

brand awareness.

u mad

good points, but 2 things

>It's like having ECC and ZFS, except it's on the file level and not the file system and hardware level
except you can't use a file while it's RAR'd up and the only time you'd know bit errors even exist wouldn't be as they happen, but when you unrar, by which time you may have accumulated a load of bit errors

True. But if yiu have a big enough recovery record you can recover from even extreme degradation. With a 100% recovery record for instance you can destroy up to 50% of the file and still recover it. Anything more than that and you'll need multiple copies.

cool. what's a recovery record?

>being too retarded to know what *\ means