RAID Storage--High-level Impact

More commercial printing and prepress firms are moving to central storage, states Brian Lee, prepress business development manager at MicroNet. "Capacities are becoming higher and higher; RAID levels are proving to be a strong support for high capacity needs."

Lee contends today's current and emerging local area networks (LANs), while adequate for many tasks, were simply not designed to handle large digital files, sometimes more than 100MB or larger. Storage Area Network (SAN) technology, based on Fibre Channel technology, is proving, and will continue to prove, itself the hot ticket interconnection model for providing scalable, high-speed network connections for data storage.