Will Reinstall destroy RAID?

Hi, I am currently having serious issue with a Powermac G5. I have tried everything under the sun to fix it, including fsck in single user mode for hours. Starting up the computer alone takes about half an hour and it constantly hangs up and kernel panics. I have an internal SATA disc for the system and a 3 drive SATA raid for my video. I have backed up all important data off the system disc but don't have enough room anywhere to backup almost a terabyte of video.
I really would like to reinstall the OS from scratch, wiping out the system disc completely, but could that completely screw up my RAID? The RAID was built with Disc Utility RAID. I am just worried that fixing the system disc could destroy any hopes of recovering the data off the RAID.
Thanks for any help!

Did you initialize a raid set on the xraid? (you do this with the raid admin tool)

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