G-raid or g-sata?

i've been reading all the horror stories with lacie drives. i have a 500gb and it has been working fine for months. however, one of ours at work has crashed and one of the disks is non-recoverable.
if i am to go with something else, i am assuming that since firewire capture and playback -- deck and storage being connected to the same firewire bus, and the fact that apple doesn't support firewire capture in FCP, wouldn't the g-sata be a better way to go than the g-raid? a bit more expensive maybe, and i need to get a pci-x card, but more stable and faster?
please give pros and cons of g-raid vs g-sata.
thanks
carl

please give pros and cons of g-raid vs g-sata.
pro's
G-RAID ... very portable, uses common FW400, and FW800 protocols
supports multiple stream DV25, DV50 video playback
G-SATA ... blazingly fast transfer speeds up to 135 MB/s
supports multiple stream uncompressed video playback
con's
G-RAID ... not as fast as G-SATA
needs FW800 host bus adapter or cardbus adapter if capturing on built-in FW bus
G-SATA ... needs SATA host bus adapter or cardbus adapter
more expensive

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