RAID Storage Systems

Anyone care to recommend the best RAID storage systems for iMac, greater than 1TB? I read a review in MacWorld on the LaCie, but it is only RAID 0 and therefore not great for LT storage of prized and growing digital content libraries. I am thinking RAID 5 with data striping. I am new to the Mac world and would really welcome this forum input.
Thanks
Mark

I have three hard drives of equal size (300 GBs in my case.) Two drives are configured as a mirrored RAID (RAID 1) and acts as the permanent backup of the other. This setup provides redundant backup for safety. I use a backup utility to create and maintain a clone of the main drive to the backup RAID doing scheduled backups on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule. Here are some recommendations for backup software:
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
As far as creating a RAID is concerned a striped RAID (RAID 0) is similar to RAID 5 except it lacks the distributed parity. The OS X built-in RAID software can create RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 arrays.
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For adding network drives i followed
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2. Even i tried creating the NS through server front end and i expect this data type to appear in the options when i go to define mount which did not happen
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