Folks,

For those of you who are using a volume overflow location
outside of your tape library, what are your recommendations
for housing these external tapes? 

I may have to overflow tapes, hopefully on a short term basis, but
maybe not. Nevertheless, the data on these tapes is not duplicated
which is of concern in and of itself. The idea of handling and
externally storing these tapes for an unknown period of time is going
against my better judgment, but I don't have the final word. 

Our library (ADIC I2K with LTO3 media) is located in an access
controlled machine 
room, which is not particularly clean or, sadly,  well climate
controlled. 
The tapes I would pull out of the library would most likely be kept in
this location. Initially I'll be ejecting 50 tapes, but this number 
will increase.

I'm looking for suggestions for (scalable) racks or cabinets designed
for this
or a similar purpose. Anyone using anything interesting they can
recommend?

Thanks for your feedback.

--Ruth Mitchell
  Cornell Theory Center