Best portable storage solution?

I am facing a new project that presents a lot of questions and I'd like some insight.
My prospective client has a collection of footage on BCSP which they want edited into a series of 30-minute programs with an eye on web, broadcast and DVD distribution. My system is currently set up for DV -- I have no BCSP deck. In the past, when necessary, I have rented a BCSP deck and run the footage through a JVC SR-VS30 (a dreadful piece of equipment in all other ways that I cannot steer people away from enough). This isn't a practical solution for this project. My client is willing to work with me, and we have several possible solutions. One is to have my client dub all of the BCSP to DV, and have me just work from the DV tapes, but that will obviously require a lot of their resources. A second option is to digitize the footage on their system (they have an analog capture card -- I believe it is from AJA) and bring it over to my system on portable drives.
This second option has interesting issues. We are exploring whether footage digitized on their system is workable when brought over to mine (I'm not sure if you need the card inside to recognize and play the footage -- this was an issue previously with footage digitized using a Cinewave card). IF this is even workable, either directly or by file conversion using something like MPEG Streamclip, then we have decisions to make about what kind of portable storage to use. They are using SCSI drives on their system, and I would like to avoid the high cost of incorporating SCSI into my system. I have been thinking about getting an eSATA configuration with an enclosure that has a secondary port (either USB or Firewire) -- the thought being that I would digitize onto their SCSI drives, tranfer it to the SATA drives via the secondary connection and bring it on home to edit.
Maybe there is a painfully obvious solution to this situation that I am not recognizing. I would like to avoid the transfers to DV because I'd like to take the work out of my client's hands, and I'd like to maintain as much of the quality of the originals as possible by removing as many intermediary devices as I can. I'd also like to mitigate my expenses as much as possible in getting this to work.
Any thoughts, at all, would be much appreciated. Even some good questions might open my eyes to considerations I haven't... uh... considered.
Thanks in advance.
Rob

Thanks, guys. It looks like the way we're going to go is the "digitize on my client's system" plan.
I found a bunch of alternative thingies to the G-Tech thingy and I wonder if you guys (or anyone) have anything to say about them.
Regarding the eSATA PCI host card for my G4: while there are quite a few cheaper options out there, my understanding is that the only stable card for G4 use is FirmTek's SeriTek/1SE2 (I think I only need two ports). The only problem with this acquisition is that I already have two Seagate Barracuda SATA drives (320GB) ready to go, but I got word from MacGurus (confirmed by a FirmTek tech) that Seagate 7200.9 and 7200.10 drives conflict with the FirmTek board. (See here: http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/PCISATAHostCards.php). So, I have to get different drives. And I don't want the FirmTek enclosures because they don't have USB or Firewire options.
Lots of other drive options with multiple port options:
the G-Drive Q from G-Tech
the NewerTech miniStack v3
the LaCie d2 Quadra
the EB3 by Oyen Digital
the Vantec NexStar 3
the Icy Dock eSATA enclosure
CoolDrives has a wide variety of enclosures, but I have heard very bad things about them.
I think I've seen about a gazillion others. I am leaning toward the Oyen enclosures for a couple of reasons -- cost, size, fanless aluminum construct, and you can order them with Hitachi SATA II drives that are optimized for AV (whatever that means -- they have a six page pdf on the Oyen site that tells me why that's important, and if you write six pages it must be important).
If anyone has stronger recs (or reasons to steer away from Oyen) I would be indebted.
Thanks again,
Rob

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