yea, got it from techdepot on a quote for $5199. I don't know if that price is still good, but I would suspect so. Jerry Bowers ( [log in to unmask] ) is our contact guy there. CDW was about $200 more. http://www.techdepot.com/pro/product.asp?productid=1805481 http://www.quantum.com/am/products/dlt/sdlt600/default.htm I saw that TechDepot had an autoloader on sale for around $9000, but it wouldn't hold the high capactiy tapes and it was terribly slow on transfer rates, but if both carraiges were full, it would do (I think) 3.2TB total compressed. I picked the SDLT 600 for speed more than anything (72MB/sec so it says heh) and is fibre channel ready. That and the SDLT's are super easy to use. Dell makes some really nice ones they use across the street, but I don't know how *nix friendly they are. Jerrod -----Original Message----- From: Alan Shields [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:41 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Tape Drives On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:33:21PM -0500, Jerrod Howard wrote: > We have used a Quantum SDLT U320 30/60 for quite awhile now, and just > recently purchased a single load Quantum SDLT U160 300/600. Veritas is our > backup software solution, but in a unix/linux environment, I'm not sure what > you would use. I will have it up and running in a few weeks and you can see > it then, or you can see what we have running now. The quantums we've used > and installed for other labs have been flawless. Veritas on the other > hand... Looking more at the hardware side. I take it that SDLT is 300G uncompressed? Alan