FCP and 1TB sata drives

Has anyone tried the sata 1TB drives in either raid or single drive cofig in a Mac Pro with FCP 5.1.4. Soon going over to Studio 2 upgrade. Also need to locate a serial 422 port to work from USB to control beta cam decks.

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    Disk Test 92.11
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    Uncached Read 81.65 23.90 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 196.27 98.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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    Uncached Read 184.22 34.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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    Disk Test 66.98
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    Uncached Read 97.05 28.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
    Uncached Read 118.18 59.40 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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    Uncached Read 83.98 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
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    Uncached Read 182.21 33.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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