Unsure as to which RAID array to choose

Soldato
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The workstation (Mac Pro) is primarily used as a video editing machine. All the video is obviously on tape and doesn't need to sit on the system forever, but the machine is used daily and we really don't need to encounter any problems.

There are 4x500GB drives on this machine. I'm tempted to RAID 0 them all for speed, but if one of the drives did fall over then I'd have some issues on our hands.

To play it safe I could RAID0+1, so have 2x1TB arrays.

Or RAID5?

What are your thoughts?
 
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