http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhitchen/archive/2007/09/28/softgrid-sequencing-compression.aspxCompressing or not compressing during sequencing has benefits and disadvantages:- Compressed . The sequenced stream will be smaller; this can be useful where storage is of concern, or more probable, where the network utilisation is of concern. Compressingen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhitchen/archive/2007/09/28/softgrid-sequencing-compression.aspx#2196942Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:06:20 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2196942Joel<p>Hello, nice article. I tried to use bzip2 independently but ended up with a corrupt sft-file. Is it possible to compress sft files outside of the sequencer?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2196942" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhitchen/archive/2007/09/28/softgrid-sequencing-compression.aspx#2068312Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:39:40 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2068312TechNet Archive<p>The decompression takes place inside the TS session. Normally TS sessions are classed as 'connected' and I wouldn't normally expect compression to be used for that scenario.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2068312" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhitchen/archive/2007/09/28/softgrid-sequencing-compression.aspx#2066320Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:32:19 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2066320Volker Kleiner<p>Hi, good Info. But one thing is not clear for me. If you use Compression and a TS Client, when will the package decompressed ? During or after streaming ? May during runtime ?</p> <p>Greetings from Germany</p> <p>Volker</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2066320" width="1" height="1">