RAID options for Imovie

after reading about some external hard drive statistics I decided to try to implement a "two copy" RAID solution of my Imovie libraries.
Given I already had three 3TB external drives I didn't want to buy a preconfigured RAID solution (which may be a mistake)
Most of my video is raw, ie not projects yet. Most previous projects have been burned to DVD and/or uploaded to youtube.
I have the following:
IMac 3TB (trying to keep it uncluttered)
two vendor "A" external 3TB hard drives
two vendor "B" external 3TB hard drives
about 5 TB of video
latest versions of Imovie and OS/X.
vendor "B" seems to have issues with frequency of failures after 2 years.
So I'd like to have "production" IMovie data on the two vendor "A" drives and use the
two vendor "B" drives as a backup.
are there any previous threads and/or ideas on how to do this without destroying my IMovie data structure?
Thanks!

I think the issue is that if you install iMovie 06 on a system with iMovie 09 installed, iMovie 6 has no knowledge that iMovie 09 exists. Therefore iMovie 6 installs itself in the iMovie folder in the Applications Folder and assumes anything in there is old and can be trashed.
Apple fixed this with iMovie 6.04, but this is no longer available.
But if you install iMovie 6 first, and iMovie 9 second, iMovie 9 knows about iMovie 6 and will move it to a folder called "iMovie - Previous Versions".
In your case, I would uninstall iMovie 09 as you started to do, then run the migration assistant, then reinstall iMovie 09.
It should also work to create a folder on your old system called "iMovie - Previous Versions". Drag the iMovie 6 app into this folder and verify that it works. Then do the Migration Assistant. This should work, but I hesitate to recommend it because I have not tested it. Best case, it installs and you did not even have to uninstall iMovie 09. Worst case, delete the iMovie folder and reinstall iMovie 09.
For what its worth, I recently did a Migration Assistant from a SuperDuper clone (after a failed hard disk) that had both iMovie 09 and iMovie 6 installed, and it worked fine. But I have not tried your scenario.
I would use Migration Assistant because then you have the correct version of Snow Leopard for your system. You may not if you use a clone. A new machine may have microcode that is not released to the general release of OSX for several months. If your Mini is a used one and at least 6 months old, a clone should work OK.

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