Is there an optimal disk format for logic

I'm about to receive my new mac pro 3ghz, 3 x 10,000 rpm raptor drives and one 250 gig apple drive. I'm planning to use the first raptor for the OS, 2nd raptor for logic audio, and the third raptor for sample streaming. I plan to use the apple disk to back stuff up.
My question is, (and it might be a stupid one) is there a preferred way to format the disks? Should i simply format all disks with the normal "mac os extended" ?
PowerMac G4 dual 1.25 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) about to get mac pro 3ghz

I don't think you can turn off journaling on system partitions anymore. Journaling allows for quick data recovery in case of a crash etc... so for the boot drive don't turn that off (even if you could). It won't affect the performance of logic because you'd put everything else on the other drives.
That said, you have enough drives and horsepower to maybe build a RAID array, have you considered that? You could probably do a RAID level 5 with those drives giving you nice fail over and increased performance, yes more so than 3 separate drives.
Just a thought.

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thorpug wrote:
I have 4 hard drives in my MacPro 1) Mac os as main use 2) windows 7, apps and docs 3) Split a) Windows XP b) backup for Mac on disk 1... and Disk 4!
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