Seeing this list and considering that this means that 5 = Normal for 7-Zip, I wonder why TC uses "normal compression (6)" in the " ghisler.ch
7-zip default compression level (split from solid block thread)
In a solid archive, multiple files are concatenated and treated as a . This approach offers several advantages and trade-offs:
: To extract a specific file from the middle of a solid archive, the software must decode all preceding data in that block, which can be slower than extracting from a non-solid ZIP archive.
You can manage these settings in the 7-Zip interface by adjusting the , which determines how many files or how much data is grouped into a single stream.