Re: Hard drive compression etc.

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Herbert Fung writes
> 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?

	No, they are just calculating that if the file compressor does on  
average a 50% file compression rate, you will in a sense "double" your hard  
drive space because you can have twice as many files on the hard drive as  
before. It can be a misleading term, but it is correct. However, the physical  
hard drive size does not change, so no worry about changing partiton sizes.

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