Backup drives for computers; Computer application software for accelerated storage devices, namely, software for backup and compression of electronic data either locally or via a telecommunications network; Computer backup and storage systems with multiple removable RAID cartridges; Computer hardware for upload, storage, retrieval, download, transmission and delivery of digital content; NAS hardware being computer network-attached storage; Computer software and hardware for SAN being storage area network and NAS being network attached storage and high speed backup of electronic data; Computer software for administration of computer local area networks; Computer software for SAN being storage area network and NAS being network attached storage and accelerated backup of electronic data that may be downloaded from a global computer network; Computer storage devices, namely, high-speed storage subsystems for storage and backup of electronic data either locally or via a telecommunications network; Computers for network management; Data compression software; External computer hard drives featuring software for scalable metadata acceleration with Datapath Metadata Backup; RAID hardware being redundant array of independent disks controllers; RAID-based hard drive backup systems