How to prepare for A3 install? Frozen with trepidation from reading here

I'm mad I bought my A3 so quickly. I have early adopter regret. I tend to jump in early but now that I've been using Aperture for years the stakes are high.
I have been sitting here staring at A3 and drooling about using it for a couple of weeks. The more I read in these posts the more confused I get. I don't understand migrating by project, yet I think that's the only way I'm going to keep my sanity.
First, a description of my set up. I have an early Mac Pro with only 2 GB of RAM. I have all my photos reside on my second 1 TB internal HD (does that make them referenced?) and about 300 GB of free space on my primary drive. My library is about 70,000 photos taking up 286 GB.
I didn't understand the concepts of vaults when I started using A1. I now want everything in one vault but I started out making a few vaults. My first vaults now are ghosted and say they are disconnected even though the external HDs are hooked up. My new 'master' vault only says my library is 225 GB, so I don't know how to account for that discrepancy. What photos are missing? Therefore I have concerns that I'm not completely backed up.
I would LOVE to have a 4-5 external HD RAID system (another concept I don't understand) but I've looked at the prices and I'm not able to spend that kind of money. It sounds wonderful and someday. . .
I don't want a regurgitation of what's already been posted, but given my brief description does anyone have advice to help me build my confidence and accomplish this upgrade.
PS - I am looking forward to using Faces and Places (to a lesser degree) so all the advice about turning off Faces makes me sad. Is there a way to have Faces work project by project instead of running through the whole library? I photograph people a lot so it will take a long time for it to process every photo.

Hi,
In my case I installed AP3 and honestly no crashes or major issues other than some slowness in AP3 but I see it's been solved with the updates and my workflow maybe helping too.
I run a managed AP3 library on a fast external drive connected via eSATA card to my MBP.
In your case I would say add more RAM (never hurts) although 2GB should be ok for now.
Leave your AP3 Library on the main drive and reference your files that exist on the second internal drive.
When importing, you have a choice as to leave in current location(so referenced)
or have AP manage library.
As far as the size of your library at 286GB, it my be a good idea to install another internal drive in the Mac Pro.
So
drive 1) Boot drive with OS and all your apps.
drive 2) AP3 Library
drive 3) Original RAW files that your AP3 library can reference-as long as you tell AP to reference the files upon import.
eventually maybe a 2 TB external drive (usually made of 2x1TB drives in one enclosure)
and this external can be used to back up your AP3 library on one drive and your original RAW files on the second drive.
http://eshop.macsales.com/CustomizedPages/Framework.cfm?page=mepal_splashraid.html
I hope this helps but lets see what others may advise.

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