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- From: pclark@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Stacker
- Message-ID: <7178@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:58:57 GMT
- References: <2095@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM>
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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- My personal, and lots of people that I know, experience with Stacker has been
- that it has unexplicebly crashed, loosing all data in the 'stacker partition',
- it has been known to overload voice-coils on some hard disks (I've seen it
- overload a coil on a Seagate), it has corrupted itself, and generally has
- created more problems than it solved.
-
- Of course, there are the cases where people have been running it forever and
- never had one problem with it, but I do not know anyone personally (out of
- 15 people that I personally know are running it) who has not had a problem with
- it in one way or another (including version 2.0).
-
- The other thing to consider is what kind of data will you be storing on the
- stacker partition? Pre-compressed files (.ZIP, .ARC, .ZOO, .etc) will NOT
- be compressed any further by using Stacker, so don't bother if you drive is
- really populated with pre-compressed files, it will just be a lot of time for
- negligable ammounts of space gain.
-
- Just my $0.02.
-
- Peter Clark
- 'Sometimes it IS better to just say NO!' - pclark@ds5000.DAC.northeastern.edu
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