Installation of Production Premium on a SSD Boot Drive

I've receintly built a custom rig with a couple of SSD Drives, a 1TB spinning disk drive, and 2 x 2TB spinning disk drives to be raided. I am using the largest SSD to act as my boot drive and hold my programs. I am just about to Install Production Premium CS6. I intend to load CS6 programs onto the boot drive/SSD, but would prefere that any included CS6 media (video clips or sound clips) reside on the 1TB hard drive. I've done some google serches on installation practices but have found very little. Does anyone have any advice and helpful hints on instalation and the set up and of CS6 media during Installation.
Thanks.
V.C. Wolff

What type of raid do you plan to use with the 2x2tb drives? Also what type of footage do you plan to edit?
Installing Production Premium on your SSD won't be any problem at all, you can just go ahead and do that shouldn't be any issues there. Your idea about putting all your content on another drive is also good, although I'd actually recommend putting all your footage on your RAIDED disk for performance reasons (If you chose RAID-0) then exporting all your content to the 1TB single disk.

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