The reason I wanted to write this is because when I found HJSplit and posted an article about it, I’ve got two comments recommending The File Splitter. temosis said that it’s the best and fastest file splitter program while jakpo agrees. So I decided to put The File Splitter and HJSplit to the test.
I tested splitting and joining the same 600MB file on a computer that has fresh Windows XP. Only drivers and no software are installed on that computer so it won’t affect the performance while splitting and joining. Here’s the computer specification that I tested on:
- CPU: Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz
Mainboard: MSI 945P Platinum
Memory: 1GB
Hard Disk: 120GB 7200RPM
The File Splitter claims to support splitting files up to 9 billion GB and as for HJSplit, it claims to handle files which are larger than 10GB. I’m not sure if there is a single file bigger than 100GB for now… So let’s just test splitting 600MB into 6 parts and joining it back.
The File Splitter
Splits 600MB to 6 parts. 100MB each.
Time taken to split: 1 min 23 sec
Time taken to join: 1 min 36 sec
HJSplit
Splits 600MB to 6 parts. 100MB each.
Time taken to split: 1 min 38 sec
Time taken to join: 1 min 51 sec
Clear winner here. I noticed that The File Splitter is 15 seconds faster than HJSplit in both splitting and joining the 600MB file. Not only The File Splitter is faster, the other feature I like about it is it automatically creates a “joiner” executable file after splitting the file. HJSplit also has the joiner program called HJJoin, but it didn’t automatically include together with the splitted parts. You have to download separately. Another reason The File Splitter is better than HJSplit is that The File Splitter file size is only 131KB and HJSplit is 313KB.
Looks like I will only be using The File Splitter in future if I need to split and join files. Thanks to the commenters!
[ Download The File Splitter ]
[ Download HJSplit ]
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And like most hispanics, it’s not working.
File splitter ONLY splits.
It does create an executable to join,
but that only works on its own files.
The File Splitter/HJSplit borth are shits !!!
Check out
The Fastest File Splitter and Joiner (FFSJ)
jaist.ac.jp/~hoangle/filesj/
Why not try this, also:
SplitJoin
angusj.com/splitjoin/
It’s very small (approx. 40kb) and comes with full source code!
somemore, if you search for “file splitter” or “splitter” in google, File Splitter from dekabytes comes at #1 in the list. :-)
Seems like we have a new competitioner…..“Splitter” splitter.vze.com…..we need to test both….Splitter VS The file splitter…
I personally prefer HJSplit. Thanks for sharing…
Splitter & Merger 5.5. New version available here:
splitter-merger.softonic.com/
I tested another software called “Splitter” splitter.vze.com made for hispanic people (Hector A. Maldonado Melgar). Elements:
Computer:
Intel PIV 2.0 Ghz
MainBoard: Intel Rexburg D845GRG
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Disk: SAMSUNG SP0822N (80 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
File: 621 Mb ( 6 parts = 100 Mb; 1 part = 21.6Mb)
Final time: 1:09 minutes
Screenshots:
xs114.xs.to/xs114/07156/Splitter-1.jpg
xs114.xs.to/xs114/07156/Splitter-2.jpg
xs114.xs.to/xs114/07156/Splitter-3.jpg
xs114.xs.to/xs114/07156/Splitter-4.jpg
Have a good day. Thx Raymond. I have long time tracking you.
thanks Raymond..:)
And from the screenie, HJSplit looks horrible. It looks like something made in the early Windows 3.1 age.
finally you caught your attention, i bet ya “THE FILE SPLITTER” will pull off HJ SPLIT out of the way.
finally u got my attention! i bet that “the file splitter” will pullout HJ-split out of the way! ;)