SATA RAIDS

Hey all,
I'm working on my home system, trying to decide what the "RAID for me" is. I'm considering going the internal route, with wiebetech's G5Jam+ and the 8-port SATA card (4 internal, 4 external), using either 400GB Seagate drives or 500GB Hitachis (ideally, the Hitachis). I'd start with 2 drives (limited budge), but it'd be nice to have room to grow, hence the G5jam+.
Option B I guess would be the Burly 4 drive RAID enclosure over at macgurus, and a similar interface card. This is an external RAID, each drivebay has a separate eSATA port, so it can be setup as JBOD, or as a huge RAID-0. I would also start with just 2 drives on this one, and build over time.
I've considered getting a G-RAID SATA, 1 TB for like $1200 - a good deal for sure, and a spifferoo enclosure. My concern here is that I'll be needing to edit 1080P HD uncompressed 10-bit at some point, and I'll need the bandwidth to do so. (I'm planning a super16mm shoot, telecine to 23.98 1080P D5, capture to 10-bit uncompressed, do all my FX, editing, preliminary CC, and then final CC at another facility with a real monitor... finally for output to D5 again, for uprez to 2k, and print to 35mm. Ambitious, I know, but production value and realism in this project are going to have to be absolutely stellar, despite having to do things on a smaller budget.)
The TRT of this project is going to be no more than 22 minutes all told, so I won't need to capture more than 2 hrs. of HD at a time. At this point I'm leaning towards the Burly external RAID, so that I'll have portability, in case I have to capture and export at a different facility without dragging my computer over there. Then again, I could always rent a D5 deck.
...thoughts?
thanks in advance to any advice.
-Kristoffer

I'd like to know more about SATA Raids as well. Been researching them, but haven't gotten very far. Bare Feats.com has some info there and I believe you need 225 MB/s sustained.
I posted this in an earlier thread. Hope it helps somewhat:
I've read a lot about eSATA or SATA II raids. Much cheaper (than fiberchannel), but the claimed speeds vary so much for what seems to be the same basic product. For example, this product seems to claim up to 150 MB/s per drive:
http://www.kanotechnologies.com/products/XPD-4XKTSI.cfm
And this product claims up to 300 MB/s and Uncompressed HD editing:
http://www.sonnettech.com/publicfiles/pdfs/pdfdatasheets/fusiondatasheet.pdf
But I've read in other places and been told that SATA drives realistically run closer to 56 MB/s and eSATA drives only 3-20 MB/s faster.
Sure would be nice to have a cheaper alternative, but sorting through all this and trying to figure out which eSATA card will fit your G5 w/o taking up extra slots or running too slow b/c it's on the same bus as another card, etc etc, is imho a total mess.

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