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From: vanmick@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Van Der Beek Michael-Leo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Stacker questions?????
Message-ID: <20550003@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
Date: 6 May 91 01:35:22 GMT
Organization: HP Singapore
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Hi,

	I am considering getting the stacker. It is a compression software and
hardware which creates another partition so that it acts like another drive.
It is supposed to double you disk space.

	Any comments on it? I will be grateful for any information you can give.
Is it very slow (software only, I have a 386-33Mhz)? I guess it will slow
down disc access if you use the compress partition, how about the other 
"normal" partitions, does it slow down too? 

	There is supposed to have a very good disk cache software incorporated,
how does it compare to other software like hyperdisk, PC-cache and others?
Hyperdisk can return memory space to windows can the stacker do the same. Also
can I run hyperdisk (or any other disk cache) with stacker? 

	When the compression is done, if you get a error sector, do you lose the
entire partition or just several files (this is very important, I usually keep
several copies of my important data in several directories (troublesome
but safer), so a lost of a couple of files is tolerable but not the entire
directory.)

	Is there any know problems with other software (it is supposed to be
pretty compatible with almost anything)?

	Thanks for all the help.


Regards,


Michael