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!