An hour passed. The torrent hit 99%. Elias’s finger hovered over the mouse button. The file completed.

While compression generally has zero impact on modern PCs, users on low-end mobile devices might experience minor "jitter" if the CPU lacks the headroom to decompress data quickly during heavy gameplay.

In summary, the key points to cover:

: Unlike lossy formats like CSO (in some configurations), CHD is entirely lossless. You can extract a CHD back to its original 1:1 Redump-quality ISO at any time.