Times Two Compressor.Txt

There have been some discussions about TimesTwo in the last few days and here's my impression of the product (I originally intended to comment on the product earlier but a project deadline kept me from doing this): First of all, for those of you not familiar with the product, TimesTwo is a HD formatter which replaces the existing SCSI driver with a driver that does compression and decompression as data are written and read from the disk. Since it's operating at the driver level and nearly all programs talk to the HD through the driver, everything gets "compressed", and theorectically, this process should be totally transparent (not so with any other types of compression programs) and there should be no compatibility problem with those programs (provided the driver is bug-free, of course). In reality, however, this's not entirely the case (all softwares have bugs - bug-free softwares are just not humanly possible), although TimesTwo does fulfill most of its promises. Once installed correctly, TimesTwo does work