Digital BW, The Print

The RAID, I'm sure, would be nice. I used to use one with my old 
G3; it did help throughput. The G4 seems to be fast enough that I 
haven't even considered a RAID for it.

But my motivation is not for speed/throughput, but for mere data 
storage and backup. Like Carolyn, I'm swamped with boxes and 
boxes of CDs, and when time is short, it sure is a drag to 
manually go through each box, trying to find that one CD that you 
burned two years ago. I'm much more into the "Command-F" 
approach, where you've got multiple hard drives, and you can 
instantly see every version of a file, named, for example, "Satan 
Boy". Sorry, Harvey, couldn't resist.

I'm also looking for some easy way to do a giant backup, every 
few months, to another giant drive that I could take to someone 
else's house, for offsite storage, in case of fire. (I'm turning into a 
neurotic old man...).

The thing that Todd mentioned is what I heard about: you install 
this PCI card, and it lets you have multiple harddrives outside the 
Mac. (The G4's max drive limit is only two internal). This box 
wasn't cheap; I think it was about $1500 for the empty box alone, 
but longterm, I love this approach.

The CD thing is silly any more. I want to one giant swoop of 
backup, and just let it run all night. Actually, I want to take all my 
old CD's, and then transfer them all to these giant drives, and get 
rid of the CD storage, and only use CDs for burning for jobs for 
clients, via fedex,etc.

The price of the drives has now made all this possible. To buy a 
75gig IBM Deskstar for a couple of hundred dollars is truly 
amazing. And to have four or five of them would be great.

Mark