>>Do you have informations about the new Magstar Drive called 3592 ?? >It is not yet officially announced. It ought to be based on the 1 TB >prototype and compete with STK 9940B. All the major tape vendors seem to be in the TB race. As for IBM, see older background info: Terabyte cartridge: http://www-5.ibm.com/storage/europe/tapenews/index.html "The IBM 1TB Tape Roadmap" terabyte cartridge presentation: http://www.ckzeto.com.pl/pub/IBM_CKZeto.pdf Something else to see (see what's really inside a 3590 cartridge, p.20): http://www.thic.org/pdf/Oct00/imation.jgoins.001003.pdf Richard Sims, BU