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- From: jtan@cad071.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jeffrey Tan)
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- Subject: Re: hard disk stacker?
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:30:11 GMT
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- |> Has anyone used one of these things? And if so how good/reliable are they
- |> really? To me it sounds pretty risky.
- Yes, the Stacker 3.0 is not bad, even though it just came out couple months
- ago. The average compression rate on most files is 1.7-1.8 times, not including
- already compressed files, such as .zip and .gif. No further compression could
- be done to those files. In the Stacker 3.0, it even allows user to compress
- their hard drive up to 8x. But you have to know, if the compression rate is
- above 2x, the reliability drops and as well as the hard drive access rate.
- I would say 2x to 3x would be the best. If you look for something reliable,
- use stacker 2.0. It has been out for long time and many people used, and are
- still using it. The only advantage I found from Stacker 3.0 is that you can
- use a trick to fool the program to compress your RAMdrive. I have my RAMdrive
- doubled from 2MB to 4MB.
-