[TriLUG] OT: firewire raid?

[Greg Brown]

A quick google search confirms that firewire raid is possible.  I am 
wondering if anyone has tried that and, if so, did you suffer any 
strange lockups or unexplained data loss?  The reason I investigating 
this is I was thinking of replacing my old, no raid, P-II disk server 
with a newer P-4, SATA RAID, blah, blah, blah.  Now I think that 
because I have primary Mac clients I might pick up a G4 powermac off 
ebay (they are reasonably priced these days), get some kind of firewire 
(800 perhaps?) external raid device and use this machine as my primary 
disk and print server.

I'm a bit frightened about the firewire raid so I am soliciting 
comments.  Obviously X-RAID is well out of my price range and is not an 
option.

Greg