I just had to laugh about the comparison of the windows backup process to the Yugo. ROFL.  I'm using a Maxtor One Touch III and it really is nice, cheap too. I think I got it for 170 for a 300GB hard drive at Fry's Electronics (if you haven't been to one and there is one nearby, check it out, they are usually awesome!).

Hmm, I should get Jenn a second raid array for use as her scratch disk.  We upgraded her to a zippy athlon 64 x2 (4000+) and 4 gigs of ram for her photoshop use, she already had a RAID0 10,000 RPM set of raptor drives, a second would give her a nice boost.  I'd get her on winxp pro x64 for the larger memory access but gunbound doesn't work on it so I don't think she could stand it. :)