Any two hard drives + one software = your own personal RAID system.

Two drives are combined via software to move the data faster than a single drive alone (joint speed of two drives simultaneously). If you prefer a hardware RAID with hot swappible disks, you can get that from ProDirect, pdisales.com.

If you work at an advertising agency, graphics design studio, prepress or service bureau, you probably already have a RAID system.

Seagate Cheetah ULTRA2 SCSI LVD hard drives for software RAID with Adaptec Remus RAID software.

A repro or copy shop can archive all kinds of projects on a RAID system. Data warehousing enterprises have used RAID for backup for several years,

but a RAID system can also help a small office or home office. For desktop publishing a RAID system can help you move files more quickly.

Here is an entry level RAID. You can configure this yourself, or have tech support from ProDirect hold your hand while you click the mouse on a few answers to the on-screen help.

We recommend ProDirect because this is where we have been buying hard drives, CD-R burners, and DVD-RAM for our digital imaging needs.

Everything is backed up on CD-R, also on Pinnacle Micro Apex removable drives (which we are replacing with the larger capacity and more widely available DVD-RAM).