Raptor as boot disk or storage/scratch?

Could anyone please advise me? The 250 GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive I installed in my first generationn dual 2GB G5 recently and partitioned for static storage and scratch disk for Photoshop definitely runs slowly. I'm thinking of moving it into an enclosure and replacing it with another. Many people recommend the 74MB 10,000rmp Western Digital Raptor. Anyone here got any experience of it please?
Should i make it my boot disk and move the applications and OSX onto it, or should I keep my Seagate Barracuda 160MB original drive as the OS/boot/application disk and use the Raptor for a scratch disk for Photoshop, or use the seagate as the secondary disk? What's the best
way of doing all this?
Also what's the best solution for an enclosure for converting the WD Caviar into an external drive?
Thanks in advance

I didn't know that about CS2 (which is the version I'm running). Thanks for that. I have 3.5 GB RAM, so it runs quite fast anyway, but a few tasks still take a little while.
Thanks for info re the hitachi too. I'll look at that. This has been really helpful. i wanted to flag it as helpful, but the option has gone and I have only a solved button.
Veda - the scratch disk arrangement has far more
utility with Photoshop releases PRIOR to CS2. CS2
utilizes memory far more than the hard drive - thus a
scratch disk does not provide much, if any
improvement, with CS2.
That said, I have used the same 74 GB Raptor in my
Dual 1.8 and now my Quad with no problems - really
like it. I now have about 55GB of applications - so I
may upgrade to the newer model soon. The new Hitachi
500 GB/16MB cache is getting excellent reviews for
performance and massive storage - you may want to
look into that as well.
Cheers

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