THE ULTIMATE ARCHIVE DEBATE

[geardawg]

.ZIP VS. .RAR

VOTE NOW

[Steve]

First off, I don't believe in format ownership. Whoever makes the RAR format converter needs to back off that "pay for this" crap. Especially since it's only like... 2% smaller than Zip, if that.

I really just use them to make sure the set of music can be downloaded all in one pack. More people have access to Zip, so I guess I'll go with that.

[Insanimania]

It really depends.
If I want to pirate something, or free up some space on my computer without deleting files I might one day use, I'd have to say Rars. If I just want to download or upload multiple files at the same time, I'd have to say Zip.

[Eisen]

I don't care. Whatever I'm looking for on mediafire/rapidshare will be in a format I can extract files from.

[Steve]

Speaking of this sort of file thing, the other day I was searching Mediafire and I came across some new format. I think it was something along the lines of .i7a or .a7i, but I can't be certain. Anyone familiar with this file?
(No, I didn't download it.)

[Eisen]

No idea.

[Leafblower29]

.rar because of it's significantly smaller size than .zip.

Although I like .7z all around the most. For the most part .7z beats .rar but sometimes .rar will beat .7z.