Raid/Scratch Querries When Using WIth Photoshop

I am about to purchase a Mac Pro 3GHZ and am looking into options with raiding the hard drives. I use my mac for high end photoshop retouching and want to get the best possible performance from the hard drives when saving and openning large files.
I am going to keep the system hard drive seperate, but purchase 2 additional Caviar SE 250 GB hard drives and set up a striped array (Raid 0) for my large working files. However, I am aware that to create an effective scratch disk it is best to partition the hard drive so as not to be detrimental to the main HD and cause fragmentation.
Because I am raiding the 2 Caviar hard drives will it be a mistake to use it as a scratch as well? Obviously the scratch speed would improve but would it affect the performance of the read/write speed of the hard drive for working files? Is it even possible to partition a raid drive and is it advisable? I am not looking to purchase a seperate HD for the scratch as I feel this would be a bit of a waste of money.
Mac Pro 3 GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The way I would actually configure a Photoshop workstation is to have…
1) Western Digital Raptor 10K 150GB RAID 0 pair for Mac OS X and scratch
2) Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500GB RAID 0 pair for data and secondary scratch
Now, I have to admit this would not be the cheapest setup although it would kick you know what.

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