[DM-MUG] External Drive Enclosures/RAID1 and OS X

[Jim Turner]

First question:  anyone know where I can get a 2-drive 3.5" external
firewire case for ultra ATA drives?  I found this guy:

http://www.cooldrives.com/3usb20ficodu.html

But I'm not too sure I want something that has a 320GB disk size limit. 
I'm planning on mirroring two 250GB drives, but I would suspect that
sometime in the future, I'll need bigger drives (this is for backing up
my G4 and the wife's laptop).  That, and the enclosure there is only
FW400.  I'd like to have the option of using FW800 someday as well.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Second question: Has anyone played with OS X's software RAID doodads?  I
see that it'll do it now as part of the OS, but I've not had the
opportunity to try it out.  Is it pretty reliable? Or should I go and
get something like SoftRAID?

Oh yeah, one other thing... in the last meeting, wasn't it discussed
that there was going to be a photo contest for the books being given
away this month?  What happened to that?  I really need that Adobe book
as my photoshop kung fu isn't as strong as I'd like it to be.

Jim