Category: Geeks r Us
Can anyone tell me what a stacker drive is? I've heard the term a few times now and heard it has to do with compression but don't know much about it. A friend told me he's using a compressed drive on his windows machine. So is this a similar thing? Can it be used like a regular drive or is it like a zip file, just holding the information in a smaller size? Thanks.
i think what he is talking about is a system backup. windows does compress it's backups somewhat i think and stores it on the drive of your choice. I'm not sure how it works in xp, but with vista you need another vista computer to get in to the backup again.
No, after looking up stacker drives, which are compressed drives in dos that you can access like regular drives, I think he's doing about the equivalent under XP. What I wanna do is to create a ram drive. Even though it'll be temporary (gets deleted as soon as I turn off the machine) it'll be really cool and it's superfast when compared to a regular hard disk.
Btw, stacker, as I recall, is the compression software. Not sure if you can use it for files like with Pkzip and Pkunzip though.
If i am not mistaken there is a compress file format called stuffit not stacker and its more popular on the mac than on windows. Also if this stacker of whichyou speak is a form of compression i doubt its the same thing as aram drive. Once again i could be mistaken but the ram drives i have seen or heard of where actual hardware you would install in a pc and yes it would work while the pc is on running faster than a standard HD but you loose all the data when the computer is turned off so you would have to save everything to the standard HD before powering down. These days i think solid state drives are replacing the need for ram drives , all the speed of a ram drive but it retains the info when the pc is off.
No, they're definitely not the same thing. A stacker drive is a real drive. A ram drive is a virtual drive that you create at the command line, unless there's special software for it. It's not a physical drive, at least, not the kind I mean. Stuffit is popular on the Mac, yes. lol I'd hardly think I need a solid-state drive with Enhanced DR-DOS. The os is already lightening fast with no overhead and bloatware like Windows. Then again, they probably break down less than a traditional hard disk.