File Compression & Encryption:

Website: WinRAR

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt a 176MB MPEG-2 source file with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs with the same compression settings.



The large file compression performance is clearly very good, eking out a few extra seconds performance. On the other hand, the small file compression is lukewarm at best, but at least the performance difference between the small file results is less across the board than the results for large file compression.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



It may be only a couple of seconds but on average of a short test, the Foxconn A79A-S comes out slower than the competition. If you imagine decompressing a .RAR file several GB in size you can be waiting significantly longer on average.