imzjustplayin
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I was thinking about JBIG and LZW style of compression that is used for bi-level pictures (B&W pictures like those for faxes) and how it uses those compression algorithms for compressing the pictures to very small file sizes. Since those pictures work on the principle of zeros and ones, I was thinking that possibly this style of encoding could be applied to data that is on an HDD platter. That you could take the bits on the HDD platter and actually make it into a picture, then compress that picture using one of those compression schemes and then store the result on another drive. This seems like it could be one of the best ways to compress the data on a computer hard drive even on data that normally cannot be compressed. I understand that this would require some low level write ability to the drive but it's possible that this could be useful for drive imaging which is done at a low level as it is.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?