MagicRAR is claiming to have 11 unique benefits not found in other industry leading archive utilities. We put MagicRAR’s claim to the test in this review, and check whether these unique benefits are really enough to make MagicRAR a viable upstart in the data compression space.
MagicRAR is produced by Simon King`s Utilities Group Pty Ltd., a Microsoft BizSpark startup company.
Awesome took 60 seconds of my time.
How did they manage to be uglier and less user friendly than WinRAR?
magic…
did one and two.
dont know when they would send the MAGIC key!
I will buy this once my winrar trial expires
Exactly! Trial has a pop up message…so what. Winrar…winning.
So, where is OP's review of the software… &
Will the app continue to function after 1 WK? ;-/
It's not a Microsoft affiliate, right? rather a
startup from Microsoft's startup support arm?
Two things
"MagicRAR Drive Press " = who on earth would be still using stuff like this?
Isnt there some sort of compatibility issues between older archives and new ones with the older and new versions of winrar (would this MagicRAR have similar issues extracting/compressing/archiving)?
If so, are we going to get a chance to say NO to "upgrading"
our many RAR files to the "NEW" format? Of just a message,
eg:
(…or worse: Getting an entire drive's data compressed, eg,
on a S-L-O-W newbook…?!?)
"MagicRAR Drive Press " = who on earth would be still using stuff like this?
It has it's uses, however:
MagicRAR Drive Press directly compresses your disk using NTFS compression, and all your applications and files remain fully accessible as before
Ie: It turns on the bit in the file structure, just like you can do in Windows explorer.
And only MagicRAR Drive Press offers a solution for this long neglected area of data compression on Windows.
Biggest load of rubbish ever.
So what does this do better than 7-zip?
Nothing.
taking your money.
Nope, rather donate to 7-Zip. It is better at taking your personal details though.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magi…
7-Zip is the clear performance winner of our file archiving and compression tools round-up. It sets the standard for both compression ratio and time with its very own 7z compression format. It manages to beat MagicRAR, WinRAR, and WinZip for the best compression ratio, even with its Fastest Compression setting enabled. 7-Zip is also a lot faster than the competition if the LZMA2 algorithm is used. It took 7-Zip only 25 seconds to compress our benchmark files and folders with Hyper-Threading enabled. Meanwhile, WinRAR took 44 seconds, WinZip 51 seconds, and MagicRAR an arduous 159 seconds.
If the priority is to get the smallest archive files possible, 7-Zip does it faster than the competition. If the priority is for the lowest archiving time, 7-Zip still yields smaller files. So, no matter which aspect of file compression you deem most important, 7-Zip is a clear choice. Another reason to choose it over the competition is that it demonstrates the most significant gains from threading. In our tests, Hyper-Threading demonstrated those benefits, but you'll also see better numbers if you opted for an FX-8320 over an FX-6300, both at 3.5 GHz. If that wasn't enough, 7-Zip has a pretty big price advantage, too. As a FOSS application, 7-Zip is free, while the competition will set you back at least $25.
Thanks for that excerpt.
So, I guess we know why MagicRAR is FREE this week…
Negging to signal that folks should IMO read the above excerpt
& (hopefully) NOT drag down any friends - that this "deal" might
(otherwise) have "Social Engineered" them to mention it to,
as it's apparently got low-value - at any price (incl Free).
"Low performance S/W costs us time - a non-renewable resource."
7-Zip is better and already (and always) free
+1 & neg - I'd prefer to donate to 7zip
Not very easy to get.
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