External RAID hot swap setup..

hello everyone! I have the first generation of the G5 - dual 2GHz. since I am doing video editing I would really like to know which RAID hot swap setup you all recommend. there are some that are cheap and some that are very expensive. I am looking for a happy medium where quality is the prime subject.
also, what hard drives do you guys recommend? I hear seagate is really good but of course my friend says they are terrible - go figure. thanks for your help!!

Hi I just found this thread similar to my own post on Bacula:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11628649#11628649
It sounds to me like Time Machine is a horrible idea in my situation. Time Machine does hourly copies of files that change by timestamp. If we're deploying MySQL (no hot backup stability guarantee) with 5+TB data files, Time Machine will try to copy that 5+TB file every hour if even a single byte is updated. That will rapidly constipate our RAID no matter how many drives we throw at it! Not to mention it doesn't have the tape support we need (that I know of). It just doesn't seem like a feasible option for us but my CIO still isn't sold on Bacula (free).
Does anybody have experience with Bacula (or Time Machine) on XServe in an enterprise-level environment? I just don't see Time Machine working for us.
Thanks!

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