Re: Hard drive compression etc.

[jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)]

>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