Ps CS6 Laptop - What Hard Drive should I choose?

I'm going to be ordering a laptop for work very soon. I will need a laptop for travel and my company orders through Dell. Basically here is my build so far (below). I have read so many forums and articles about hard drive setups. But I'm limited to a laptop so I need to prioritize! Please offer some advice on my build so far, best Hard Drive, and any room for improvement, or even where I might have overkill (is that possible? haha). I get one internal hard drive and I want to choose the best one for my application. I will be working with files for print. I believe up to 48" x 64" x 600dpi multiple layers. I'm going to max out RAM to reduce scratch disk necessity. Also, when docked I will have dual 22" monitors.
15.4” Dell Precision M4700 Mobile Workstation
Win 7 Pro, 64 bit
Photoshop CS6
Intel i7 Processor 2.8GHz
NVIDIA Quadro K2000M w 2GB GDDR3
32 GB RAM
Hard Drive Options:
512GB 2.5" (SATA3) Mobility Solid State Drive (very expensive)
256GB 2.5" (SATA3) Mobility Solid State Drive (expensive)
1TB 2.5" 5400rpm Hard Drive
750GB 2.5" 7200rpm Hard Drive
Thoughts? Thanks so much!

Ok here's the problem its either 3 drives, no optical media, RAID  ***OR*** 1 drive, no RAID. I can't have 2 drives becuase I get the following "error" when choosing options on the dell site
The No Raid RAID Configuration only allows a maximum of (1) 2.5" hard drive. If Primary Storage selected is 2.5" then Secondary Storage will need to be "NONE".
SO with THESE LIMITATIONS what do you think is my best bet? 3 drives and no media (seems like a bad idea?) or 1 512 ssd? Also my boss thinks I need 2TB of space (which isn't even an option here) and so I think it will take some convincing to explain that a smaller faster more expensive SSD rive could be optimal over the 1TB or 750GB HDDs....
With everyone's advice and suggestions I'm no closer to making a decision. I really need to work within these parameters. And keep in mind the 32 gb ram and other specs and what I'm doing. I'm not doing 3D animations or video production here. I don't even have Illustrator or other software, just PS CS6 (not to say I won't get Illustrator or other graphics software in the future but my job function should not change - just print work)
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