Using NAS Drive during editing.

Ok so I'm about to make a big purchase because I'm sick of Hard Drives failing on me. I'm going with a NAS device that takes 4 HD's and then I can RAID half of them to be mirrored. Only problem is, can I have my source clips on it's network while I edit on Final Cut Pro? The drives would be 7200rpm, would I be able to hook a mac computer up to this?
What are some of the ways you guys efficiently edit without having to worry about TB's of clips on your external drives?
Links to my "maybe" purchase.
Synology NAS Drive - http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Attached-DS413/dp/B008U69HOG /ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1370018384&sr=1-6
Western Digital 7200rpm 3.5" 4TB Internal x 4 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236407
Synology Nas Drive Website Page - http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS413&lang=us#p_submen u

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
RAID 1 (Mirroring) ONLY protects against drive failure. It does not help with file corruption or unintentional deletion of files because whatever happens to drive A in the set is duplicated on drive B.
If you are looking for data security, you need a three tiered storage system:
Level 1 - on line access
Level 2 - near line storage
Level 3 - off line storage
For Level 1, RAID 1 offers security. It is a relatively expensive option because you need 2x the capacity and additionally, your write times may be slower because the data has to be written 2x.
Better in my mind is RAID 5. This gives you the same data security with less of a hit for storage and write times. The downside is you need at least 3 drives in the set.
Then, for Level 2, get a set of hard drives and something like a voyager Q bare drive sled and use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the contents. This is important to address the problem of file corruption or unintentional deletion where RAID 1 or 5 won't save you.
Still, you really need two sets of drives at this level to provide redundency so that if one off line drive dies (and you do not have the material currently on the RAID 5 drive) you have a backup.
For Level 3, you start looking at high capacity tape storage.
If you have a solid Level 2 strategy, you can probably get away with not employing any redundency at Level 1 (RAID 1 or RAID 5).
Best.
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