Backup 3 RAID connected and linked to 2 RAID connected

I have three firewire 800 Lacies working as one through RAID, connected to a G4, with a total "capacity" of 750gb. Two are over 90 percent full. The third has about 380gb left. It's an uncompressed film on FCP 4.5.
I want to copy the film to the hard drives I would buy -- probably the cheapest 500 gb 3 1/2's I can find.
1. Would you think I need to compress the files to use only one 500 gb drive?
2. Are there disadvantages to compressing for storage?
3. If I need two 500gb drives would there be any complication in linking them together, while the other three LaCie drives are configured to work as one?
4. Which files and folders should a I copy for the storage backup? Everything?
Your wiseness greatly appreciated.

1. TOTAL capacity of 750GB...and one drive is 380GB free? That means that you have under 500GB of footage on all the drives so yeah, it should fit. But..how can they be RAIDED and SEPARATE at the same time? RAID means that you make multiple drives appear as one. DAISY CHAINING drives is just that...daisy chaining.
2. Moot because the footage should fit. But yes, there are huge disadvantages. Loss of quality...there is no way to compress then decompress at full quality.
3. Possibly no. But people with more than 5 drives daisy chained seem to have some issues. And I do know that the newer hardware raided drives (BIGGER Disk, G-Raid...those with two drives internally that are raided to appear as one) drop performance DRAMATICALLY when daisy chained. Only drive that doesn't is the CalDigit Firewire VR. So far.
4. Everything.
Shane

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