{"id":14419,"date":"2012-03-02T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2012\/03\/02\/file-archivers-comparison-7zip-vs-peazip\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:34:15","slug":"file-archivers-comparison-7zip-vs-peazip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2012\/03\/02\/file-archivers-comparison-7zip-vs-peazip\/","title":{"rendered":"File archivers comparison: 7zip vs PeaZip"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A comparison analysis between the 2 most used free software for files and folders archiviation\/compression\/decompression: 7-Zip<\/a> and PeaZip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Supported OS:<\/strong>
\nwinner: 7-Zip<\/em>
\nPeaZip is available for Windows and Linux, 7-Zip is available for Linux, Mac OS X, DOS and other operating system within p7zip (indipendent developer)<\/p>\n

Archiver features:<\/strong>
\nwinner: PeaZip<\/em>
\nthe features considered are: data compression, shell integration, password protection, multiple volumes, self extraction, file repairing, batch conversion, Unicode file\/directory names, encryption, filename encryption<\/p>\n

Supported formats: (reading)<\/strong>
\nwinner: PeaZip<\/em>
\nPeaZip supports two more (ACE and ARC) and also special formats listen below<\/p>\n

Supported formats: (writing)
\nwinner: PeaZip<\/em>
\nPeaZip supports ARC and also special formats listen below<\/p>\n

source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Benchmarks:<\/strong>
\nwinner: 7-Zip<\/em><\/p>\n

i made some tests by compressing a folder containing mixed files (mp3, documents, text files, images, videos, executables) and subfolders in the zip format with default settings; the results:<\/p>\n

Dataset: 395 files, 7 folders, total size 408.260.608
\nPeaZip = 359.845.888 \/ 27.9s
\n7-Zip = 359.845.888 \/ 19s<\/p>\n

same test with a single big file (1gb of video file), the results:<\/p>\n

Dataset: 1 file, total size 1.621.884.928
\nPeaZip = 1.615.855.616 \/ 2.49m
\n7-Zip = 1.615.855.616 \/ 2.11m<\/p>\n

Memory usage:<\/strong>
\nPeaZip 9.220Mb
\n7-Zip 3.516Mb
\nwinner: 7-Zip<\/em> <\/p>\n

tests have been made on a Windows 7 SP-1 Ultimate 64 bit dual core machine measuring memory usage in idle mode.<\/p>\n

Special notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

PeaZip has an automatic installer that shows ads, however ou can use a plain installer version without ads. It’s available also as portable version (Windows 32\/64 bit and Linux). Can create auto-extracting archives, split\/join files, secure encryption, two factor authentication, secure deletion, find duplicates, export job definitions as batch script files, multilanguage, support non common formats LPAQ, PAQ, QUAD, BALZ, UPX and FreeArc.<\/p>\n

7-Zip has a powerful line command version and is also available as portable version<\/a> (not ufficial), multilanguage support, auto extraction archives (SFX), support these formats in reading: .MSI (Windows installer), Apple DMG and HFS disk images, DEB and RPM packages; high ratio compression with LZMA and LZMA2, AES-256 encryption for 7z and zip formats, FAR Manager plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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