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- From: jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
- Subject: Re: Hard drive compression etc.
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- Date: 8 Nov 92 02:42:53 GMT
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- >With the release of hard drive compression utilities, HardPressed and
- >Auto Arc
- >brings up a question. Both of these utilities are boasting that they will
- >double the size of the hard drive. So my question is, will a 20 meg hard
- >drive
- >equiped with HardPressed or Auto Arc become a 40 meg drive? If so, will
- >it have
- >to be partitioned?
-
- >Herbert Fung herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
-
-
- In short, the answer is no. Your HD will still only physically hold 20 MB, but
- that 20 MB might represent up to 40 MB when uncompressed. I'm skeptical up the
- "doubling" claim.
-
- --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu
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