Laptop Dual Drive configuration with SSD

I would like to get an opinion on what configuration would give me the best performance on my laptop.
I have a Dell Studio 17. It has two drive bays. Quad core processor, and 8 gig of ram.
I am going to re-install the OS (Win 7 Ultimate).
I will have two hard drives. One, a 250gig Kingston Solid State Drive. Two, a Seagate 750gig 7200rpm w/16meg cache.
I am thinking of using the 250gig for the OS, and 750 for data.
So here is my question, would I install CS5 on the C (solid state) drive since it is faster? and where would the best place to put media and scratch files be?
I can put it all on C being that it is a solid state drive and much faster, but then I am only using one drive controller. Or, should I split it up and utilize both drive controllers. Of course, I suppose that Dell only used one drive controller for both drives in which it's a mute point. But I don't know this for sure.
Anyway, open to any opinions. Including installing the OS on the larger slower drive, maybe using some partitions, leaving the 250 gig Solid State as the CS5 drive.
Thanks

I did some benchmarks using PerformanceTest 7.0
What is interesting to me is that I had partitioned my 2nd drive to put my CS5 projects on. Scratch is on C.
The B drive, and D drive is the same drive, just two different partitions. I don't know why, but the B partision is slower than the D partition.
B is 112gig with 50gig free, and D is 340gig with 65gig free. But being the same physical drive, I would think they would have the same performance.
Anyway, also included in the benchmark is drive M, which is my external drive connected both as a USB drive, and an ESATA drive.
The ESATA benchmark is pretty good, beating the B drive in all tests, and close to the D drive.
Of course the SSD drive beats them all in all tests.
Can't wait for these to come in a terabyte at affordable prices. !!

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