Writing large amounts of data very fast for 8&16mm films

Hi all,

I am looking for the optimal Storage configuration for use with a dataframescanner (www.mullerhm.nl) which scans old 8 and 16mm film.
This device will be connected to the pc through Dual Optical Fiber Copper connection to a PCI Express card.

Writing to disk
The scanner sends up to 26 photo's per second each about 3,5Mb in size. This means the PC has to write like the wind. The must be absolutely no delay in writing.

Large amounts of data
Scanning 20 minutes of film gives me about 250Gb of data. I will probably scan 4 hours of film each day totalling about 1TB of raw film data each day. After that I will encode, burn to DVD or Blu-Ray. I am still considering doing the encoding on the same machine or on a different one. If I do it on a different PC then the copying itself will be quite a challenge (copy speed for one pc to the other). At the end of the day, when i'm finished, I will delete all the data.

Data recovery
recovery of data in case of disk failure is not a main concern. If something happens, I still have the original film. It sets me back max one whole day of work.

Some questions:
- should I use a RAID 0 setup? I am thinking of 2, 3 or more disks
- can I fit 4 disks into one pc?
- Are lage disks (1Tb) slower than smaller disks (500Gb)?
- should I place these disks inside the PC or should I use an external NAS instead. I think the NAS will alway be slower?
- what is the fastest connection fron NAS to PC? eSate, USB3, Gigabit Ethernet, etc?
- what is the fastest conncetion from PC to PC for copying large amounts of data (total of max 1Tb) every day (eSata docking station, NAS, Gigabit Ethernet, USB3.0>
- which Windows 7 version should I use? 64 of 32, professional?
- what advantage has hardware striping (PCI card) over software (W7)
- any suggestions for hardware (Motherboard, etc)


Thanks for your help.
Roel (The Netherlands)