Disk compression utility software (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A diskcompression software utility increases the amount of information thatcan be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a filecompression utility which compresses only specified files - and whichrequires the user designate the files to be compressed - a diskcompression utility works automatically and the user doesn't need to beaware of its existence. When information needs to be stored to the harddisk, the utility will compress the information. When information needsto be read, the utility will decompress the information. A diskcompression utility overrides the standard operating system routines.Since all software applications access the hard disk using theseroutines, they continue to work after disk compression has beeninstalled. Disk compression utilities were popular especially in theearly 1990s, when microcomputer hard disks were still relatively small.Hard drives were also rather expensive at the time, costing roughly 10USD per megabyte.…