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- From: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 21:59:46 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- I tried using SuperStor Pro on my 110Mb IDE C: drive and took the defaults so
- that it compressed the whole thing, except for a small area with boot files
- that could be accessed only with SuperStor utilities while SuperStor was in
- operation (i.e., the SuperStor drive got swapped in as the C: drive). I found
- that disk access was so slow without a cache, that I first tried Windows 3.1
- SMARTDRV (which appears to disable itself for the stacked drive, and so was a
- null op), then Norton Cache 6.01 (AddStor expressly warned against Norton Cache
- 6.0; but Symantec claimed that 6.01 was O.K.). The latter combination worked
- O.K. for a while, but then I started getting cross-linked files and found
- myself running the SuperStor repair utilities, CHKDSK, and Norton Backup
- (restore) a lot. With insufficient disk space to back out of SuperStor, I
- blitzed the whole C: disk and started restoring stuff from my pre-SuperStor
- backup (NEVER try one of these things without a backup!). By not restoring a
- lot of the seldom-used stuff on the backup, I gained 35 Meg (a cheap
- alternative to compression!)! I'm tempted to try SuperStor again on a smaller
- piece of the drive, but having been burned once...
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- Richard Scott
- Stratus Computer, Inc.
- rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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