> What vendors of drives? Anyhow, if your going to get a drive, hp has > onsite service for pretty cheap 3yr contracts. the Sony DDS-4 drive that I've used hasn't shown any issues. the Seagate one is the flaky unit. I'm pretty sure that the Seagate AIT-1 drives were just Sonys with a different name on them; so for the moment I'm guessing the DDS-4 drives are pretty much identical except for the name on them. :) I've seen a couple of HP drives go bad... one was a DDS-2, that was about 3-4 years old, I think. the other is a DDS-3 which still works; but might be showing more 'soft' error messages when writing than it used to. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700