How to build a small fcpx network

Hey guys,
Currently I am a church tech director and I do a lot of work in FCPX, Motion, Logic and Compressor. We are looking at hiring an Assistant Tech Director or an Intern to help me out at which point we will get a second mac pro. We have a building network but it is pretty slow and there are about 25 staff members that access it. I would like to get something set up where I have about 12TB of space that can be shared between me and the new hire but is fast enough to edit directly from or transfer libraries back and forth from they're mac to mine. Any ideas of an efficient yet not to expensive way to do this? Currently I have an early 08 MP 3.0ghz 8-core with 32gb ram and 12tb internal 7200rpm for files and 256tb ssd for programs and a sapphire HD7950 gpu. It does ok if I keep my libraries fairly small and only one or two open at a time. For the second computer (which will become mine) we are going to get the best new MP that we can afford (probably one thats about $3000). Anyways any ideas would be appreciated and if you need more info, let me know.

While I have no direct experience with that setup, it looks to me that if you can place two new macs and a decent TB raid you can easily create a fast private network over TB. In that case you could probably opt for two Retina MBP or maybe one 15" MBP and a MB Air for about the price of that MP. I am sure that a 15" MBP and maybe even an Air  will run circles around your current mac and you'd get more productive with two current macs.

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