Susie Russell wrote:

> was advised by Micron tech support where I got my computer from that they
> don't generally recommend compressing drives because it causes a lot of
> hassles, mainly slowing down your response on anything that is stored on
> the compressed portion because it has to decompress before it can read.

My personal experience is that compression works great and the reduction
in speed is hardly noticeable.

I've compressed the drives on this machine (Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V with
an 83 MHz Pentium upgrade chip installed) for many years without any
trouble at all. I guess you could get in trouble if you try to mess with
the compressed portion of the drive but if you leave those alone and use
your logical drives just as you would uncompressed drives, you shouldn't
have any trouble with it.

I have had troubles with Win 95 but the problems don't appear to be
caused by HD compression.  With Win 95 now installed and it writing
files all over everywhere, the 1.7 Gigs of total drive space I have
wouldn't be enough for it and all the other software I have without
compressing the logical drives.

Loy


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