#Disk Drive Compression
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I need (as always) more space on the drive. Does anyone have experience with
stacker or DOS6 compression and 3DS. I loaded DOS6 compression on my other
machine and one of my simulation programs will not read the files now.
James.
I have Stacker (v2) and it works fine – BUT – there is a <slight> time penalty
in reading and/or writing lots of data. I can't say how it affects 3DS because
I had Stacker before 3DS. I'd say the time trade was worth not buying another
300Mb disk <g>
Phil
Thanks for the reply, I am a little paranoid about software (or hardware)
devices that compress, stretch, tangle… all of my months of hard labor, sweat
and frustration. But… I do not like buying disk drives if I don't have to.
James
James,
I _had_ Stacker 2.0 on my machine and it worked OK until there was a power
outage and my machine crashed and when Stacker crashes it crashes very badly.
To cut along storage short I lost the entire contents of my disk and hadn't
backed up for a while. If you back up frequently then you may be OK.
My other criticism was that it added another layer of maintenance which I
didn't really have time for. You have to keep defragging and other such mundane
things far more frequently than without.
It put me off disk compression (I still like file by file compression) for a
long time. I would buy another disk before I would add Stacker again. In short
most people love it until it crashes then they love it considerably less <g>.
Martin
PS: I do know several others who have had this experience so it's not an
isolated incident.