HD & FCP: RAID-3 or RAID-5 (LaCie 4 Big Quadra)

I'm guessing this has been asked to death, but before I format my LaCIe 6 TB 4big Quadra as either RAID 3+SPARE or RAID 5+SPARE, I was curious if either had any performance advantage editing / playing back HD (recorded 720pn or 1080/24p from a Panasonic AG-HVX200A).
Probably via Firewire 800 -- I'm running on a MacBook Pro 2008, so the eSATA connection isn't going to be too realistic.
And yes -- either RAID 3+SPARE or RAID 5+SPARE will knock down the overall storage to 2 TB, but it's a short project anyway (5 2-minutes scenes).
Stephen

Randy,
The RAID is for data protection --
I had heard that RAID 3 was better for reading large, contiguous files, but suffered during smaller, random reads (RAID 5). So I wasn't sure if folks had any real world experience with one RAID over the other...

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