At 11:42 -0500 8/1/09, Neil wrote: Thanks for the recommendation, Zane. The only 8-bay USB enclosure they have costs more than $600. Does anybody else have a suggestion? It's only going to be cheap if it's purely passive. A powered 8-way USB hub with eight cases and a roll of tape would do that. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk