After discussing my situation with my IT guy, we talked it over, and our assumption was that maybe the file is just too complicated, and it would take a long time on any machine. I put premiere pro 2014 on our solidworks machine, figuring that it would be a little faster because of the better processor and video card. It was more than 4 times faster, and completed exporting in a very reasonable time of 1hr41min (instead of 10hr49min with single drive, 8hr45min with velociraptor).
Solidworks machine:
Xeon E3 1270@3.4GHz
Dell Motherboard (Dell System)
16GB RAM, dual channel at 665MHz (my system listed above is dual channel @800MHz)
NVIDIA Quadro 2000
Seagate 1TB hdd 7200RPM (my system listed is also 7200RPM)
Windows7 x64