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I hate to say it but I think that the Xserve is probably the most expensive and least effective way to do this. What you'll end up with is probably 4TB of storage (maybe 6TB if you do a ram disk and 2TB x3) shared over ethernet. I would instead suggest that you look into multi-TB NAS system you can share between the stations which will give you the same effective storage at a much lower cost. If you were getting the speed of fibre or the mass storage of DAS from the Xserve I could see it but you're getting the drawbacks without the benefits.
Unfortunately SAN is not something you can piecemeal together - it needs to be planned and implemented as a whole. While the Xserve you buy today may, or may not, be useful when you make an Xsan down the road the Xserve will be a small portion of any Xsan implementation.
Speaking as someone who used to do video you need to spend smart with today's dollars and I'm not sure the Xserve does that for you now. If you can get the same features for less money or more features/storage for the same money that is usable now - that's my vote.
My $.02,
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