05-20-2005, 09:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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SwellDisk 300%: Does It Work?
SwellDisk 300% claims to enlarge the size of your storage card by 300%, and with support for Microdrives, it could work out to be a neat solution for those of you who are tight on storage space. Actually, I've never been a huge fan of software-based solutions which claim to boost this and that, since I have always believed that the easiest way to get additional performance is to buy the hardware which can provide it (and in this case, it would be a bigger memory card). However, that's not to say that SwellDisk 300% doesn't work. If it really does what it says, it could work out to be a cheaper and quicker solution. The downside to all this is that no trial version has been made available, but if that doesn't bother you, Handango has SwellDisk 300% on offer for $39.99. Note that the standard version is also available for $19.99. If you're a SwellDisk owner and believe it to be worth every buck, be sure to let us know. [Affiliate]
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05-20-2005, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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It reminds me of the days when some of us used Stacker on hard drives. It sounds great, but the compression is unlikely to reach the 300% their name implies. My SD card is full of JPEGs and Ogg Vorbis audio, and I bet they can't shrink that by much... :?
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05-20-2005, 09:31 AM
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Scam.
In the UK, the advert will fall afoul of the Trade Descriptions Act. Disk compression is nothing new. Most PC's do not use such compression on volumes storing programs (As I hope most people use their CF/SD cards to store programs as well as documents) because it increases the CPU and RAM overhead to read, decompress and store program segments.
In reality - you save maybe 10% of your CF card space in exchange for reduced speed and extra RAM usage.
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05-20-2005, 09:47 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2002
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"Natural Harddrive Enhancement!" :lol:
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05-20-2005, 12:01 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: SwellDisk 300%: Does It Work?
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
but if that doesn't bother you, Handango has SwellDisk 300% on offer for $39.99. Note that the standard version is also available for $19.99. If you're a SwellDisk owner and believe it to be worth every buck, be sure to let us know. [Affiliate] |
Yeah, right, and the real swelling happens on the sellers accounts - for the same money you get a nice SD card and less trouble...
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05-20-2005, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I like the fact that the support email address is [email protected]. Straight to the top man! 
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05-20-2005, 12:22 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Re: SwellDisk 300%: Does It Work?
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Originally Posted by farnold
...you get a nice SD card
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Well, that was precisely my point. I did say in my earlier post that if I had my way, I'd much rather go out and buy a storage card than rely on a software-based solution.
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05-20-2005, 12:43 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by Ward
Scam.
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Short, sweet, and most importantly, RIGHT ON POINT! This is as bogus as they come.
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05-20-2005, 02:23 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2002
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The key thing that comes to mind is bad memories of "DriveSpace" and other compression tools from back on an old Win 3.x machine I had. The performance hit for those was painful for me.
Beyond that, no interest in the product anyway, I stick to the comment someone else has already made... Need more storage? Buy a bigger card.
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05-20-2005, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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stacker, drivespace ... there were even some ram-doubler programs that enlarged your physical ram by compressing it.
with 1gb cf and sd cards being as cheap as they are today, i guess the need for swelldisk should not really be given.
20 bucks can get you what ... 512Mb ?
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