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From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk Express info wanted!
Message-ID: <928@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 16:06:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 16:06:32 1987
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Reply-To: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Summary: Good stuff

In article <870002@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>Does anybody out there use "Disk Express"?  Did you notice a large improvement
>in disk speed and/or a lot more disk space?  Is is hazardous to use with 
>System/Finder 4.1/5.5 on a SE HD20?  Does it butt heads with any of your
>other applications?
>
I've never tried DiskExpress on an SE, but I've used it a lot with a Mac Plus
with CMS hard disk, and a Mac II with same. No problems at all. The 
documentation warns that it should not be used while there is any copy
protected stuff on the hard disk, though. The only 'danger' I can think of
is that DiskExpress spends as much as 1 hour reading and writing info to
the hard disk (when you've got a pretty full 20 meg drive), so if the power
should fail during these opererations, who knows what will happen to your data?
I've got a standby power supply hooked up to my Mac, so I don't worry about 
this anymore. I don't notice a great speed increase, but then again, I run
DiskExpress a LOT. I've noticed that since I've started using it, unexplained
system errors have ceased to be a problem. You will be shocked when you see
just how fragmented some of your floppies really are. The desktop 
rebuilds much faster on these, after D.E. is used.