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

: If a solid archive becomes corrupted, it may be impossible to recover any files within the damaged block, whereas non-solid archives often allow for the recovery of undamaged individual files.

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.

In a solid archive, multiple files are concatenated and treated as a . This approach offers several advantages and trade-offs: