Perfect Hard Drive Setup?

[oldapachesquaw]

I just ordered the retail version of the new Western Digital 300gb Velociraptor hard drive. Since I will be using it to replace my current C Drive, I will have options as to how I want to re-organize my current hard drives. I am asking for advice on what the best setup is for multiple SATA hard drives, and what the best page file settings are.

This is how my current system is setup:
C Drive (Seagate 160gb SATA, ST3160811AS) = ONLY for Windows and programs
D Drive (Seagate 300gb SATA, ST3300620AS) = My Documents
E Drive (WD 500gb SATA, WD5000AAKS) = Pictures & Video files

The Velociraptor's 300gb size is overkill for just a windows drive, so I am wondering if there is harm/benefit in moving My Documents back onto the system drive, that being the new Velociraptor? Or is it best to keep everything on different drives as it is now - leaving the system hard drive separate from my data files.

I do NO GAMING, and edit photos/videos primarily, along with web & graphic design.

The last part of my question is how to best setup the page files? System managed on C Drive and no paging files for the remainder drives? Or different?

Your help and advice on the fastest hard drive setup is appreciated.

 

[jdraughn]

I have always kind of thought that lately, wich ram as cheap as it is, paging files are kind of a thing of the past. I would get 8GB of ram if you do alot of video and photo editing and let windows handle the page file.

 

[oldapachesquaw]

I'm running XP Pro with 4gb of RAM now. I read that XP can't read more than 4gb, so I am limited to that until I change to Vista. But thank you for the advice.