• Piranha Phish@lemmy.world
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    11 months 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) slow disk speeds.

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      11 months 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!