Re: Hardpressed and Salvation

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <151510973.39071096@adbbs.antioch.edu>,
John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham) writes:

>
>I'm still wondering if using a disk compression utility like HardPressed
will
>cause problems with disk maintenance utilities like Salvation or ProSel.
>Sounds like I'll just have to try it and find out *B^/
>
>

    All software-based hard disk compression schemes cause problems.
Mainly, there are always programs which want to access the HD directly.
Wares which circumvent the normal OS do not work correctly if HD data is
in some weird format.

    The best example is in PC-ville. Software-based HD compression enjoyed
a spurt of popularity but has been dropped by most users because many new
games use incompatible custom OS's.

    Another common complaint is speed. Retrieving small and medium-size
files may take a bit longer. On the other hand, large files come in more
quickly because savings in load time more than offset time used for
decompression.

    All of this assumes that the compression/expansion software is free of
serious bugs. Also, you must have enough RAM to handle the extra
operations involved.

    Even with SCSI, upgrading hard disk size is no longer an extraordinary
expense. Once IIgs gets a good E-IDE interface, we'll be able to add 2GB
units (for less than $300)  and just forget about software-based HD
compression altogether.


          

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