Hi.
http://www.hp.com/rack-optimized/index.html
(pull up: "Tape Rack")
You'll find the rackbox enclosure plus add 1-4 DLT drives. Thats it.
For Tape RAID functionality I suggest (if its for Win NT?) : you buy also
a) Backup Exec NT v7.3  and its option for RAID: b) RAIDirector.
So its software based RAID funtionality 90% people use, specialized hardware
for Tape RAID is
extremely seldom used but is out there..somewhere. Remember that backup is
normally done at night so using the servers computational power for RAID is
fine, really.
If you want to read more about the software needed you have a White Paper
there:
"How to Design a High Performance Tape Backup Solution " Veritas is probably
the best of them since it
uses RAID 3, one drive is dedicated for parity data, Arcserve uses 5 which
is not as good when used on tape devices


<[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:8a6c0i$39q$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello,
>  I have been reading around and from what I understand you can get two
> HP 80GB DLT drives to work together in parallel, doubling the backup
> speed if you put them in a rack. Could someone tell me the part numbers
> of what I need to do that, so I can get an idea of the price. I
> immagine the racking component must have some special electronics in it
> to achieve this. Does anyone have any experience with these kinds of
> systems?.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nicholas Waltham
>
>
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