Storage / Backup Question

As this relates to how I work with my files whilst using FCE, I suspect this is probably the right board to post on....here's my question....
I'm starting to produce more and more videos for work - I capture with a small Sony HD camera, import the files to my external hard drive....and then start work on them....
This works fine for now...but as my first Terabyte starts to be used up, I'm also starting to consider issues such as backing up...
I started to read about RAID storage options.....RAID 1 appears to be the way to go in terms of storing my master files, and ensuring they are safe....my questions are....
- Does this sound like the best strategy?
- Will my Mac need a seperate RAID card installed to handle the extra processor/RAM work?
-Are there any particular setups / brands anybody could recommend?
Many thanks in advance
Jonathan

When I was recently organising new backup facilities for my sctatch disk I got advice from someone on Macfixit against using a RAID system for backups, either a hard or software RAID system, for the reasons that Martin mentioned - lack of sufficiently reliability. The reason for re-equipping was that the internal power supply circuitry of the (failed) external Scratch Disk caused the failure. If that happened in a RAID system (which I believe shares a common internal power circuitry) the whole RAID would fail. I got a rescue firm to read and copy the Capture Scratch on to another HD but many files did not survive.
I went for two 500 GB external LaCie Firewire 800 (actually triple inteface) drives and use one for my scratch disk and copy everything across to the other now and again. As a test, by resetting FCE's Scratch settings to the second drive, (to simulate a failure of the first) FCE worked normally.
Loosing the scrastch disk (as happened to me recently) creates lots of work in re-capturing. So I am relying on two backup systems for my Capture Scratch - the second HD and the Mini DV tapes, all of which I keep as they are quite cheap.
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I just purchased a 500mb My Book Pro external drive
for use with my imac duo which runs Windows XP via
bootcamp. This computer is shared by three family
with very different skills and needs. My dilemma. I
want to format the drive so that the imac can be
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