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From: mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Automatic disk compression (har
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Date: 5 Jun 90 02:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!mead    Jun  4 21:00:00 1990


This is a hardware query, bail out now if you're not interested.

Sorry if this is vague, but at least I'm accurately communicating the
contents of my working memory:(  Anyway, my advisor mentioned seeing
an ad (in, say, PC Magazine) for a piece of hardware (a card?) that
boosted your effective disk space by 200% (or something).

I could (probably will) hunt down the product name etc, but I was
hoping someone out there can discuss the field in general or even offer
experiences.  Any advice would be appreciated (by email even more!),
but the kind of things we're wondering are stuff like:  Would it be as
effective as PD software such as PKZIP?  It would (de)compress "on the
fly" (right?), so how would disk access time be effected?  (Or, how bad
is the damage?)  How reliable is the technology (what happens if the
power goes in the middle of compression?) ...

Again, any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

-alan mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu