That something that's always baffled me too. Your boot drives shouldn't really have much more than the OS and apps and better served by mirrored internal drives. Making striped Raptor boot drives are for those dorks who want their system to boot 15 seconds faster once a week and their five hour session with Final Cut Pro to being 3 seconds faster and don't care about decreasing their MTBF by 50%. It's penny-wise and pound-foolish.But the more I think about it, booting from the RAID is not really very important.
The areas where you're storing video and other data files should be on different file systems than you boot from. Since we've only got four disk slots in a Mac Pro, that means for anything non-trivial, they're going to be on an external array not used for booting.