Mac Book Pro - SATA vs FW800 external drives

I am pruchasing a MBP this week for road editing and I have a few storage questions for those in the know.
In the past I have always blindly trusted a single external FW drive to capture, store and edit my projects. Since these jobs would be 5-10 days straight work and then playback at the end, there is little time for backup during a project. You hardly have enough time to sleep. Thankfully, I have never experience a hard drive failure and have always completed the dedline. But, I have collieges that have run into nightmare harware failure and lost everything one night before playback. So, with the cost of external drives so cheap right now there are several options to explore for my new road system so that I never experience this, EVER.
Which one is best method for FCP editing in DVNTSC, DVCAM or HDV for reliabily and mirrorer backup during a quick, but always important job on-location job?
1. Just continue to buy multiple individual external FW800 or 400 drives and mirror them using software, like chronosync ...This is what I do now and this works for nightly backups in house, but what about for jobs that last for days and store 100's of gigs of video? There is no time for this daily backup...
2. Buy multiple FW 800 drives and set up a RAID 1 using software...? I have not done this and have heard it can be CPU intensive since it's software based. Can this be done and still be able to capture hours of footage on the fly without a dropped frame or problem?
3. Buy a large RAID 0 or 1 system like the 1TB Two Big from Lacie or the G-SATA RAID system from g-technology so that the hardware handles the RAID mirroring between the 2 drives in one housing... or does this method also come with software to do the RAID 1 configuration?
Basically, I don't ever want to get into a spot in the future where a client on the road didn't get their finished product because of a failure on my drives part. So, I feel that the RAID 1 system setup, with swappable drives is best, but since I have not successfully done this before, does anyone have any suggestions or have this successfuly set up now using FCP?
And... which drives are better over all for this FW 800 or SATA drives? I even saw some drives with quad interface... that's cool.
Thanks for any help.
Tom

Keep in mind a RAID 1 only protects you from hardware failure of one of the drives. It does not protect you if the hardware raid/chip set decides to take a vacation. Also, if FCP corrupts a file, it is written as corrupt to both drives.
I'm a big fan of separate but equal. Two drives. One goes to the site, the other remains at the hotel. At night, you back up the site disk to the the hotel disk. If something happens to the computer and the disk at the site the next day, you at least have the material back at the hotel.
eggs. baskets. that sort of thing.
good luck.
x

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