> is that one of the Spectra carousel changers? If so, how many > drives do you > have in it? Yes, only 2 drives, AIT-2. But, I'm not striping the data for higher throughput either, it's getting the fast throughput on a single tape. The front of the unit is beige though. Spectra has some black faceplates floating around their office that are samples from the company that makes the faceplates, but they wouldn't give me one. So I have this beautiful rack of gray and blue sun equipment, and it's ruined by the ugly beige changer unit. :) > what HSM (Heirarchical Storage Management) software do you use? Sam-FS from LSCI (http://www.lsci.com). They're based here in the twin cities, and the guys that work for them are extremely nice people and easy to work with. I was talking to one of the engineers, and Sam-FS is in use on some tape changer systems with hundreds of terrabytes of storage, and thousands of tapes. They apparently have their own filesystem too which is supposed to be faster and more robust than Veritas, although I haven't tried it. Jay