Drive Usage Configuration for CS6 Workstation?

I'm trying to setup a workstation optimized for Adobe Premiere CS6 and need some advice on drive usage. (Projects, Media, Previews, Media Cache, etc.)But with the backup situation I'm currently using, I'm only allotted 1TB, so I have to pick and choose what drives I should back up.
Here's the setup I have...
System Setup:
HP Z820
16gb RAM
Nvidia Quadro 6000
Drive Setup:
C:(OS) 300GB SATA SSD
D: 500gb SATA 7200rpm
E: 1TB SATA 7200rpm
I can either backup my OS SSD drive and the 500GB drive or just the TB drive. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Shayne W.
Boise, ID

Your 2nd option is what I do with 3 platter drives (320+320+1T) and then USB drives for file and OS backup
For OS+Software backup, I make a restorable image to the USB drive
The product I use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
Image runs off of a bootable CD via Linux (the Zip you download includes a program to
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Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my post - it is much appreciated.
I have ruled out the 2 x 2 ssd in raid 0 as an option due to the lack of TRIM support for this configuration as the performance would just deteriorate over time.
Your advice makes sense as everybody's individual needs and preferences are different.
I'm still going to go with a combination of individual SSD drives ( no raid and just depends how many individual SSD's I decide to allocate) with the RAID5 array of 4 x 3tb disks for backup (around 9tb usable space ). The machine wont just be used exclusively for video editing and hence this is swaying my decision towards the SSD's.
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