I've been personally using NTFS compression on 12 external USB HD's since 2002 (Mix of 120/200/250GB HD's). (Actually only the ones that have compressible data have NTFS compression turned ...

I know for many years it wasn't safe to write to NTFS partitions, so I'm just wondering what the state of the art is. It's time to reinstall Windows on this machine (games & such), and I'd intended to ...