>>I had an Exabyte drive, 8mm....lost more data than it would store. Strange. I've stored thousands of gigabytes to the various flavors of 8MM Exabyte drives and have had very little data loss, usually bad tapes. I especially like the 20G/40G Mammoth drives, though for cheap price on both drive and media, the 8505 is hard to beat. David day0ne dgass at swbell.net