Setting up my new CalDigit raid, best way?

So my CalDigit S2VRDuo 500Gb raid arrived today and I was about to install it but something made me stop. I am in the middle of a large project that will last until November. At present I have about 250 individual clips (HDV really can be a pain sometimes :)). My thought was to install the raid as a Raid 0 and then move all the files over from my 2nd internal (my usual capture disk). Of course wouldn't that condemn me to a weeks worth of reconnecting clips?
Any suggestions folks?

Two drives named the same thing will be no issue. BUT...make sure that you take the internal offline before opening FCP (just eject it...it will unmount) so you make sure that everything works. Then you can consider trashing things. OR...keeping it as backup in case you have a drive failure. I do that. Just name it something else after you transfer the data and FCP won't link to it.
But, if you did have to resort to reconnecting, once you find one or two things, FCP finds the others in the relative path.
I do get spiff from CalDigit and Matrox. Well, I get to use their products for a while. Loaners. I have to return them at some point, but I still get to use them.
Shane

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