Yes, it is the same drive as the old one. It is a Seagate 4MM 8K (32K,10,7,E) Also, within the properties the Enable hardware compression is checked. I remember last night when setting up the back up within the Vertias Backup Exec. I edited the job and chose hardware compression, if no hardware compression then software compression. <-- This is the only thing I changed, do you think this had something to do with it? I am not sure because this same vicious cycle has happened every night since I installed our new drive and I didn't change this until last night. What can I do to remedy this? Again, keep in mind, I am extremely new to the backup process