Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dorm.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Real-time data compression for hard disks Summary: Any practical experience with this stuff? Keywords: Stax, compression, hard disks Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 04:28:00 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 I am finding that my 100MB RLL drive is no longer big enough for the files I want to keep on it. Instead of buying a new drive and controller (big bucks), I'm interested in using one of the new real-time data compression boards being advertised. Stax is one of the promising products. But I'm concerned over how reliable and fast it is. I am running and developing lots of MS-Windows stuff. Does anyone have any experience with the Stax compression board/software or similar products? Please reply by mail and I will summarize here. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici ** Systems Programmer III * Rutgers University Computing Services medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu * medici@cancer.BITNET * !rutgers!elbereth!medici My opinions are not necessarily my employers'. *Reality is context-sensitive.