> From: "John P. Tomany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Both are equally bad. Sooner or later, the compressed disks will crash.
> It isn't that big a loss if dblspace is used only on floppies - but using
> it on hard disks is very dangerous without complete UNCOMPRESSED daily
> backups. ( A 20MB HD takes up 35-40 floppies for backup.)
I used DriveSpace (6.22) for about a year and a half with no problem. But I'm
a backup fanatic, too, so I was ready "just in case".
BTW, you don't have to do a COMPLETE daily backup; one good complete backup
with regular incremental or differential backups will serve you well, too. (I
was using Central Point Backup at the time.) And that's true whether the HD
is compressed or not.
> Besides - dblspace improved actual amount you could put on a hard disk by
> only a small amount, unless most of your files were plain ASCII text.
> Zipped files, images, etc. would normally go on the disk only slightly
> smaller ( 1% ) than the original - because they already were compressed.
Same with any compression method, including ZIP. Text files, data files,
word processing files, uncompressed .BMP files compress quite a bit. Program
files (executables) and such moderately. Compressed files hardly any if at
all.
My biggest problem with DriveSpace was that I was running it on a 486/33 with
4 megs of RAM (no budget money for any hardware upgrades) and the thing was
PITIFULLY slow under Windoze. I did almost everything from DOS and using DOS
apps for that year and a half.
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