> I love AIT. If you're buying it for home use though, AIT is probably too > expensive. Transfer speeds are very fast though. I have a 40 tape AIT > changer set up as nearline storage on a Sun E3500, basically, it acts like a > 4TB disk. is that one of the Spectra carousel changers? If so, how many drives do you have in it? what HSM (Heirarchical Storage Management) software do you use? > But the changer was nearly $30k, and tapes > are around $100 each (50GB uncompressed, 100GB avg compressed). that's AIT-2... I was talking about AIT-1 (25/50GB... maybe $1800 for an internal drive. are AIT-2 drives still about $4000? nothing else is quite comparable to that, except LTO (Linear Tape Open) which can go 100/200GB, but probably has a price to match. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700