** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** I'm kinda getting the feeling you guys aren't really too chuffed about the way these drives last. I wonder if that is why they are so , um... inexpensive at lest when compared to the price of the largest available scsi drives. SO I wonder about getting a USB or Firewire one for backups perhaps or to carry a clone from box to box... ( ot maybe to plug into a business room's computer in order to keep my files from getting spilled out onto an Xp drive. ( I'm half convinced that is how my email password at Bellsouth was picked up. Not completely but it almost makes more sense that some curious person would bother to download my email off the server. It would have been smarter , were they looking for CC numbers or the like to leave it there so I didn't find out someone was reading my email. Can you say encryption??? Well no, apparently, most windows clients should do it but to get someone to encrypt or accept encrypted email is like pulling teath. Still, is the general consensus that these huge drives aren't really reliable for longer than say 1.6 years? and by two full years of service one could expect a failure? -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? '