Hard Drive Setup for Premiere Pro CS 6

I've recently made the switch from FCP 7 to Premiere and I'm trying to setup my hard drives. I've been reading up in the forums, but I'm still not sure on the best setup. I work with Canon DLSR footage 90% of the time. Here are the drives I've currenlty got it setup at below, but I'm willing to swtich it up to something better.
300GB WD 10,000 -- OS, Programs, Pagefile
2TB WD 10,000 RAID0 -- Media & Projects
2TB WD black 7200 -- Preview, Media Cache, Exports
2TB WD green -- Time Machine
Thanks in advance

Your drives and your drive setup both look pretty good to me. Possibly moving previews to your RAID could help. Realize too that fine tweaks at the level of performance you already have may help part of your workflow (i.e. timeline work) vs. other tasks (renders).
Regards,
Jim

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