Mac Mini server 2010 (no modifications) Panics & Drive issues

Hey guys,
I've been having some issues with a 2010 Mini server (stock 4gb with no modifications) It's crashing at least daily, sometimes greyscreen panics, sometimes retaining mouse input, but nothing responding that requires disk use. (You can move windows around etc but not load anything that isn't already visible or interact with finder)
I've had issues with one of the hard drives before with it disappearing from disk utility (even booted into command line) , and system profiler giving a "There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices" error.
I've had it in at the genius bar before, they found nothing wrong and had the drives mount fine. I had put it down to a lose connection as the guy said he had reseated the drives and had no problems.
Anyway, like I said its been crashing pretty much daily so I decided to bite the bullet and erase & reinstall the OS, and that led me to new error logs to work with!
What do you think? I should also note it was installed from a usb superdrive (the ones which came out with the Macbook Air's)
error log file: http://d.pr/xYok

I had been running my Mac Mini Server with both drives striped as RAID 0 up until a few weeks ago. In the middle of the night the Mac Mini Server rebooted and when I tried to login the next morning, it never finished. I booted from my backup clone drive and ran Disk First Aid on the RAID volume and it reported that my only choice was to reformat. Since it's kind of risky to be running a striped array anyway, I chose to reformat as individual drives.
After rearranging everything so the data would fit on the two volumes, I started having some problems with my media drive that I use for video editing. Disk First Aid didn't report any serious problems, but I downloaded SMART Utility and it reported the drive is FAILING. So, I have lost all confidence in the second drive (lower) and have an SSD on order to set up as my boot volume as a replacement.
BTW, when I called Apple about this problem, they said I could take the Mac Mini Server into an Apple Store and it would take 3-5 days for them to evaluate it and repair, if necessary. Since the closest Apple Store is 65 miles away and I can't do without the server for that long, I'm eating the cost of the failed drive and I guess I'll just live with that. But it doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the other drive and this isn't the first problem I've had with this Mac Mini Server.
Dennis

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