I was planning on contacting the people who installed the new RAID, i just wanted to make sure I exhausted every other possible solution first before I go ahead and blame the problem on a hardware issue. Are there any settings within Final Cut that would usually solve a dropped frame issue, minus:
1. deleting FCP preference files
2. changing RT from safe to unlimited and vica versa
3. turning external video off
4. turning video playback to none
5. making sure scratch disks are set to the correct place.
thank you very much for helping me with my problem.