Storage solution for large scale video editing?

I need to edit my way through over 1TB of captured 1080p HD video footage. I have a more than competent Mac Pro to do the job but the internal drives are quite full so rendering will be an issue.The footage I need to edit is currently on a Western Digital My Book.
What is a good reasonably priced system that I can use to edit through and back up to?
I'm thinking about 3-4TB size.
I've been looking at the Drobo but it seems that it won't be able to pull the clips through to the timeline fast enough.
Many Thanks

I'd suggest looking at the OWC Mercury Rack Mount or Desktop disk systems. I'd get a bare unit and put in my own drives - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, 7200.12 or ES.2 drives or WD Caviar SE 16 or Caviar Black drives. I'd stay away from any green or low-power drives at this point. You can do this for less than about £500.
You will probably want to put an eSATA card in your MacPro so you can connect via eSATA rather than FW800.
Personally, I'd rather myself use a JBOD unit w/ 4-1TB drives inside but most of the multi-unit enclosures these days are RAID only. One model of the OWC Rack series enables 4xJBOD via eSATA.
I would also get my footage off that MyBook ASAP.

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