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From: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Virtual 2.0 and DiskExpress
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.105038.9762@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 90 10:50:38 GMT
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Reply-To: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Organization: Unemployed Mac Fanatics, Inc.
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>Personally, I think DiskExpress is a well written & designed utility,
>but I think it's a bit compulsive to have to have yur HD optimized
>everyday. I find the constant disk access annoying, as it tries to
>optimize while I'm using a word processor and trying to think...

I concur (the desire to have your disk always optimized seems a bit, well,
anal-retentive, doesn't it?). More troubling to me is the sheer number of
trap patches that DiskExpress II does to do it's job. With all of the INIT
incompatibility/weirdness going on in the world, it's the last thing I need.
I now use Norton's SpeedDisk about once a week. After the first time (which
took 45 minutes on a 140 MB disk), it now only takes about 20 minutes to
fully optimize my disk. Plus, I use Norton's DiskDoctor program to fully
check out the health of my HD before I do the optimization, which is an
added value to the package. Norton's optimization of System and INIT files
does seem to make the boot process (or at least my boot process) faster...

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