Hard Drive bottle neck.   Running SRT thinking of switch to SSD

I did the "windows experience index" on windows 7 on my new custom build.  I got 7.9 (which is the best score) on everything but the primary hard disk.  I got a 5.9 score for the primary hard disk.
I set up the drives with Intel's SRT with one 120 Patriot Wildfire Sata 3  drive (only using 60 gigs of it I am using for the SRT seeing that is the max and the other 60 gigs I partitioned it for extra storage space) and a 1 teribyte HDD sata 3 in the two sata 3 ports on my Gigabyte motherboard.   My Media drives are two 1.5 tb in a Raid 0 in the two Sata 2 slots but i don't think the "windows experience index" uses those in their test.
I was thinking of switching this in hopes of a better score and even better performace (even though I am pretty damn happy with the way it works now even with what windows experience index score of 5.9 is telling me)
I have a total of Two 120 Patriot Wildfire Sata 3 drives on hand.  I was thinking I should use them in the two Sata 3 ports on my Gigabyte mother board in a Raid 0 which should give me close to 240gig of system drive and a really fast rate of data transfer.   
All i am using this computer for is CS5.5 Production Suite and some web sites most all CMS websites these days (maybe a few games but I am not a big pc gamer)
What does everyone think?   If you think it is a good idea for me to switch to the two ssd in Raid 0.   I am wondering if I should reformat all the drives first?   I won't have to change anything on my media drive seeing that is on the Sata 2 part.  If anyone has done this before I would love to hear how you went about it. 
Oh and off the subject I documented the whole build and posted more than half of the videos on www.brentdolan.com   I am eventually going to come up with another name but can't think of any.  any suggestions?  
Thanks to everyone in advance.
Brent
www.brentdolanmedia.com

Thanks everyone for your input.   I think for now I will just leave the system the way it is. Why mess up a good thing right?
Just wondering if there was any extra advantage.   My current set up works awesome.  It is a dream to edit on but i was wondering if it could be possibly better.
I edit in AVCHD footage.   The footage edits great.  Alll real time play back.  Exporting to a H.264 is basicly in real time (10 minute clips exports in a little under 10 minutes)
So really what more can i ask for?   I guess I am just being greedy.  I should of went with two 2TB drives in a Raid 0 for my media drives but I got the others on sale (at the time was strapped for cash)
Since I built this machine so many more projects followed.
I guess it is like the old saying "build it and they will come"
Thanks again all for helping me make up my mind.
Brent

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