"Dedicated" Hard Drive?

Hello,
The most intense program I am running is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. My box says the system requirements include a "dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing"
Would somebody be willing to help me clarify what is meant by "dedicated"?
Below is my system information. Should I expect performance compromises?
Computer
-MacBook Pro 17 inch.
-2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
-4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
-Hard Drive - Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB
-Mac OS X - Snow Leopard - 10.6.2
Thanks,
Robby

FWIW, I use a laptop for a lot of lighter NLE work (SD only). Though it has 3 physical (not partitions!) HDD's, I do edit to/from externals, connected via FW-800, because I migrate these Projects between the laptop and the workstation. My setup is to have the Project, Scratch Disks* and the Media on these externals, and each has their drive letter assigned exactly the same for each machine's OS. In my case, I have heavily invested in FW-800, and they work fine. As Harm states, eSATA would be even better, and that is where I will be going with future purchases.
Good luck,
Hunt
* in a perfect world, having the Scratch Disks and Media on any single drive is not the ultimate, but for transportability, it works OK.

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