WinRAR has generally been the best Archiver. It shines with multi-volumes, recovery records, good speed and fast compression. Jobs can be saved in profiles, which makes it usable for system backup. Besides special backup-programs, Winzip is the competition for that. Widely used, WinRAR has one disadvantage: it's not free.
7-Zip is free and it opens more formats than WinRAR. Its LZMA2 compression (default as of 7-Zip 9.30 alpha) is the best among practical usable Archivers, somewhat better than WinRAR. It's behind WinRAR when it comes to multi-volumes. In 7-Zip these are splits of normal archives and volume parts cannot be extracted separately. Speed depends on settings you choose.
Peazip, is a free Graphic User Interface -GUI shell- around command line archivers and compressors. It makes it possible to use experimental compression engines, the ones who are stable enough - open source or free ones. Peazip's own format is forgettable, but it can work under Linux and supports both archivers without- (zpaq) and with usable windows versions (7-Zip, FreeArc). Not always the latest versions.
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andy2004
I have winrar, 7-zip and peazip installed, I use winrar and 7zip mainly, winrar can extract a lot of different types but can only create .rar files, 7-zip can also extract a few types but can only create 7z files, i use both for extraction. peazip i dont use very much, whilst it has great compression like paq, it does take a lot longer to pack/archive but with usually very little difference in actual filesize.
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andy2004
srinivasmv419 winrar is probably the most used archiver as rar used to produce smaller files compared with winzip, 7-zip isnt zip format, its a better compression which sometimes/usually produces smaller files, peazip can do both rar and 7-zip but it also has even more higher compression techniques PAQ. I use peazip for decompression files mainly.
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srinivasmv419
hi anybody pls comment on winrar vs 7 zip vs pea zip,thank u
soundping
PeaZip 5.6.1 now has RAR5 support!
soundping
Still no RAR5 support in PeaZip.
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WinRAR has generally been the best Archiver. It shines with multi-volumes, recovery records, good speed and fast compression. Jobs can be saved in profiles, which makes it usable for system backup. Besides special backup-programs, Winzip is the competition for that. Widely used, WinRAR has one disadvantage: it's not free. 7-Zip is free and it opens more formats than WinRAR. Its LZMA2 compression (default as of 7-Zip 9.30 alpha) is the best among practical usable Archivers, somewhat better than WinRAR. It's behind WinRAR when it comes to multi-volumes. In 7-Zip these are splits of normal archives and volume parts cannot be extracted separately. Speed depends on settings you choose. Peazip, is a free Graphic User Interface -GUI shell- around command line archivers and compressors. It makes it possible to use experimental compression engines, the ones who are stable enough - open source or free ones. Peazip's own format is forgettable, but it can work under Linux and supports both archivers without- (zpaq) and with usable windows versions (7-Zip, FreeArc). Not always the latest versions.
andy2004
I have winrar, 7-zip and peazip installed, I use winrar and 7zip mainly, winrar can extract a lot of different types but can only create .rar files, 7-zip can also extract a few types but can only create 7z files, i use both for extraction. peazip i dont use very much, whilst it has great compression like paq, it does take a lot longer to pack/archive but with usually very little difference in actual filesize.
andy2004
srinivasmv419 winrar is probably the most used archiver as rar used to produce smaller files compared with winzip, 7-zip isnt zip format, its a better compression which sometimes/usually produces smaller files, peazip can do both rar and 7-zip but it also has even more higher compression techniques PAQ. I use peazip for decompression files mainly.
srinivasmv419
hi anybody pls comment on winrar vs 7 zip vs pea zip,thank u