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piranhaphish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I used the proprietary predecessor, Stacker.

It was pretty magical. It turned my 40 MB hard drive into a (seemingly) 80 MB hard drive.

I don’t remember there being a significant performance penalty, because it was presumably overshadowed by the relatively (compared to processor speed) disk speeds.

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Tathas@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Both times I used either one of them, it crashed in the middle of compressing my hard drive and I had to reformat. But they worked fine the 2nd try!

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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
"I don't remember a performance penalty, because everything was so slow it didn't matter"