Best way to move files between drives- Advice?

Many moons(FCP2) ago I made the mistake of dragging files from one hard drive to the other. At the time there was a media manager that was supposed to do this job but I screwed up and subsequently lost the files and had to recapture. I just bought a LaCie External 250 gb drive and I wanted to speed up my three media drives. Each of them will keep about 15 gb out of 75gb. SHould I use the LaCie software (SIlverkeeper) is there a FCP Media Manager? and do you still want to erase drives after each project or does Tiger eliminate the need for optimizing? I know these are basic questions but I'm still a bit gunshy.
Thanks
Enio

And speaking of DisKWarrior - I had a panic with it last night.
Had a fw drive with 10.3.8 on it - the drive was acting the goat and wouldn't mount, hmm I think, this is looking terminal.
So ran DW 3.03 on it from a Tiger boot disc - no luck, error messages from DW. Cold realisation and panic slowly sets in. Then I try DW 3.02 booting off the Tiger disc again.
Got the Panther disc back - cloned it all off. Whew.
DW saves the day, again.
First time I've had the latest v not rescuing an older OS disc, tho'.
Weird - oh well, just thought I'd throw that in in case it helps someone.
cheers

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