Best Way to Media Manage and Setup Disks?

Hi Guys,
I have a job coming up soon. It would be great to have some advice on how to manage the media properly and setup the Scratch disks.
It will be shot on RED @ 24fps, with audio recorded separately, to be synced in FCP (6.0.5 I believe).
We will have 4 internal SATA drives on the 3 Mac Pros (2 editors, 1 assist), all independent of each other, not on a SAN or other network.
What would be the best way to setup these disks as scratch disks? Partitioning, with picture dailies on one drive's partitions, then sound dailies on another drive's partitions? Then perhaps Renders on another drive's partitions, with the project itself running off the system drive?
Or perhaps a striped RAID 0 of all the 4 internal SATA drives?
I'm thinking that we may transcode the R3D Raw files to Apple ProRes 422 before syncing/cutting.
I will need to be copying media and projects between stations, to update each editor with latest dailies media, dailies bins and latest cut sequences.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks!

What would be the best way to setup these disks as scratch disks
Get a good drive or Raid array and format it as one drive. Then go to the System Settings and choose that drive as your Capture Scratch drive.
Partitioning, with picture dailies on one drive's partitions, then sound dailies on another drive's partitions?
No. Why do that? What is the point of partitioning and doing that? Just make folders on the Capture Scratch for what you need. FCP makes them automatically for footage you capture via Log and Capture or Log and Transfer. If there is footage you just Import...like audio files...then make a folder for the audio files and organize it like you think you should. Then Import.
Then perhaps Renders on another drive's partitions, with the project itself running off the system drive?
No...Renders can be on the same drive and partition. Where are you getting this idea that you need your media spread all over ****-and-gone? But you are right about your project file, that resides on your system drive, and you need to back that up daily onto your RAID, or other separate drive.
Or perhaps a striped RAID 0 of all the 4 internal SATA drives?
LORD no. You have 4 drive bays...one is used for the Operating System...do NOT raid that drive and then store media on it. And Raid 0 is fast, but not secure. One drive goes, the entire raid goes. Get the CalDigit RAID card and stripe THREE of the internal drives as a RAID 5...then you can get the HD ELEMENT as an external add-on if you need to expand. Or start out with an external RAID, like the Caldigit HD One, or Maxx Digital EVO HD.
I'm thinking that we may transcode the R3D Raw files to Apple ProRes 422 before syncing/cutting.
That is wise. Or edit with the proxies, then conform when you are done, saving drive space.
I will need to be copying media and projects between stations, to update each editor with latest dailies media, dailies bins and latest cut sequences.
Sort by DATE...that way you can grab all the new stuff. KEEP THE DRIVE NAME THE SAME...and keep the drive file and folder structure EXACTLY the same, and you will never need to re-connect.
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