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In article <1992Dec16.171516.2631@pcx.ncd.com> chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:
>I've used Stacker (2.0 I think) for about 6 months will 0 problems.  No
>lost files, not corrupted files.  I've got a 200 meg drive with a 1 
>non-stacked drive and five 25 meg stacked volumes (which ends up being
>about 50 megs after stacker).  The partitioning was kind of stupid, but
>I didn't partition it (partitioned by a relative who set the system up
>for me) and it works, so I leave it alone.  

Actually, the partitioning does make sense, from a speed point of view.
If you have, say, a 200MB drive and you leave it all as one partition, then
when you run an app, the heads may have to travel from one side of the hard
drive to the other.  When you partition, every time you switch to a different
drive, the heads move to that location, then everything on that drive is
near the park position.  If you do heavy usage on that drive, then, you aren't
thrashing your heads back and forth as much as you would be if everything
was scattered all over the disk.
   This is especially important for programs like Windows, where you would
want all the apps and temporary files in the same general area on your
hard drive, because of the amount of swapping it doe.  The easiest way to
group programs together is to make a partition and put all the software on
that logical drive.
   It's a lot easy than trying to use a defragmenter to do it, anyway.  :)

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