I'd go with a DDS3 or maybe a DDS4. DDS3 is 12gb uncompressed. I've seen a few drives on eBay for under you budget. You can't go wrong with DLT IV (someone [Sony?] released SuperDLT not to long ago, but I haven't looked into it yet.), except for price. It all depends on how much you're backing up, and how often. For me a DDS3 would be fine. Incremental backup would probably get me by on DDS2 after doing a full backup to a DDS3 tape. (For my one home box anyway.) I haven't had much experience with backups beyond DDS and DLT. I know someone who has plenty of horror stories to go along with their Echo soultion though. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010226/e17aeec5/andyzb.vcf