> work. That combined with a generic enclosure and Western Digital drives > will probably be our resolution. Western Digital has a great head park > feature that if the drive loses power it uses energy from the spindle to > park the heads. > Western Digital also has a great feature of planned obsolescence. That is, after they turn 1.5 (+/- .5) years old, they just stop working one day. At least that has been my experience, with about 6 different Western Digital drives in the last couple of years. The 250 GB capacity is the worst of them all, but I've had a few other capacity drives fail as well. Its also convenient for them that their warranty was only 1 year in the era when they built all of those junk drives. I think that the warranty is longer now - not that that helps you get your data back when the thing fails. If you are mailing things back and forth, I would try to stick to camera cards or USB sticks, if their capacity is great enough. Dan -- **************************** Daniel Armbrust Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic Rochester daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu http://informatics.mayo.edu/