Is RAID the best for me?

hey all,
i've been doing research online for a while on the different raid systems and i believe i'm beginning to understand. however, my setup currently is unique so i thought i'd ask:
i am editing on an iMac 2.4ghz core 2 duo with 4gb of ram and all of my media is stored to an attached firewire tower. The tower has 8 hard drive bays which feeds out through 2 firewire 800 cards (so 4 drives per firewire 800 cable)
those two firewire800 cable then go to a firewire hub which i in turn have attached to my imac
currently i edit mostly HD footage (captured with the AIC at 1080i @ 601) and have the tower full with 4 2TB 7,200RPM drives and 4 1TB 7,200RPM drives
currently i just have Chronosync mirroring the drives, my question is, would i be better with a software raid solution (i'm thinking the one built in with disk utility)
if so...what RAID would you recommend considering i don't have eSATA or a dedicated RAID card and the fact that two firewire cables are being channeled into one coming in my imac
i know....a unique setup
i know.....i need a mac pro
i really do appreciate your time!
Thanks
~Will-i-am~

hey guys
thanks for the responses. The problem is, each firewire card in the tower is only hooked up to 4 hard drives...
here's the tower i have:
http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=eBOX-F&detail=yes
i got it because it was the most economical system to get me up and running...
maybe i missed something but can i use disk utility to have software raid take care of it, the drives each show up as separate in disk utility
Thanks
~Will-i-am~

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