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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
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- References: <CMM.0.90.2.714995016.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:55:00 GMT
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- macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
- >In article <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
- >>Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?
- >>
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- >Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
- >drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
- >take a tad bit longer. Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
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- That depends on your system speed and your drive speed. It has to
- read less off the disk, so you save time there. If your system
- "unstacks" the data fast enough, it's a net gain. I've seen it work
- both ways, it varies from system to system.
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- Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side.
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