LTO Drive to archive video files - how to hook up to MacPro?

I want to buy a Quantum LTO drive to archive FC video files that I have on my XRaid. It seems you need a SCSI card, but these don't seem to be available for the MacPro (Intel). I know there is a SCSI to Firewire adaptor you can buy, but it creates a bottleneck and slows it all down. I need to back-up 160-200Gs at a time at a good speed. Any ideas? Thanks.

http://attotech.com/scsihostadaptertechnology.html is where to start... they make cards for PCIe slots.. they are the best in the business in fact.
I'd think you only need a single channel card. UL5D's I'm pretty sure would work.
Jerry
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