My video department has a couple Apple Pro Quad-Core 2.66 GHz machines each configured with the following. I am being asked if they can be used to replace my old G5's with Scsi's. Can someone let me know if this will work and have better performance than my old G5's?

Apple Pro Quad-Core 2.66 GHz
8 GB Ram
ATi Radeon HD 4870 512 MB
640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3GB (Bay 1, computer drive)
two 2TB HDs (Bays 2&3) configured as RAID 0 (striping) for 4TB volume

These machines were purchased for Playback Pro but we are going another direction. Video department wants to know if this will work as an upgraded machine for Catalyst or if I should ditch the 2TB RAID drives and install one SSD drive.


Any feedback would be great!