Hard drives for Logic Pro 8, Final Cut, After Effects, etc.

Hello gang, although i have read through many threads re: hard drive configs for different people's uses on many different forums (thats why i am here to get it straight from the apple's mouth) that i frequent and contribute to I have read everything from '10k drives only give a slight speed to boot up times' to 'with these 10k drives my machine is FLYING/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png'. The ladder posted by a crazy i am sure . So, If i were to purchase 2 10k drives (raptors are my only choice?) and use one for osx and my programs and the other for my scratch disk would i then use the stock 250 seagate that came with the machine as my itunes, pictures drive (i have an external FW800 750 seagate for back ups)? If i were to do this sort of configuration what would be my benefits if any at all? I had posted this in another forum and it pretty much had me more confused as people were going back and forth as to their PERSONAL preferences and it ran the gamut . I was hoping someone that uses the programs in the subject line or know what the new drives would do to make workflow more efficient. THIS IS THE LONGEST POST EVER. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my 1st Mac Pro so i would like to set this lovely lady up correctly. Again, thank you for making it this far if you have .
Best,
Pandasarus

Yes, the latest 300GB VelociRaptor is still king, and one G5 owner (not Mac Pro) installed three and was very pleased.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard103.html
There are other options.
A WD Caviar 640GB would do fine.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
RAID configurations of SAS vs SATA:
http://www.barefeats.com/harper13.html
TB drives: http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html
Boot drive (doesn't have every model):
http://www.barefeats.com/harper9.html
I would go with 3 drives.
Backups: always have two or more so one is safe and off-line, things happen. TimeMachine plus SuperDuper backup clones combination.
Boot drive with just OS and applications, media drive, editing, and so you want to have a stripped scratch RAID.

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