SSHD Hybrid drives and Raid 0 for Premiere

I am looking for a little support and help as I would like to expand both the capacity and speed of my current editing setup.
I intend on using 2x Momentus XT Hybrid SShD 750gb to give me 1.5tb of very fast storage, and buying a cheap 2tb drive to manually make backups.
I edit mainly DSLR footage in cs5.5, but I 've noticed large slow down in applying effects and rendering as my current 1tb drive fills up.
I've looked around the internet for some answers specifically about this scenario, and whether it would suit to enhance video editing.
I am currently using windows 7 home premium.
Gigabyte x58a-ud5
intel i7 920
12gb corsair ram
gtx 470
I am currently using:
C:128 Corsair ssd force 3
D:Seagate Barracuda 7200
C:OS,Pagefile,Premiere and programs, media cache
D:Everything else
Thanks

I did a quick render test. It is rendering okay when I am applying basic colour correction. The CPU is going between 20% and peaking at 80%, so this would indicate that the CPU is maybe not the bottleneck currently.
The ram is using 6 gb at max, of 9 gb made available for use by Premiere in the preferences.
I will definately clean up my drives and defrag very soon, as I am finishing off a short film project where I have been using 10 bit uncompressed footage. That should free up some space!
I am interested about your other suggestion about getting the hdd drives and raid 0. I have done a little research recently on the forums, and had a look at the optimum disk configuration for various systems depending on the number of disks available. Now, my understanding is that you want to try and spread the load over a number of disks. I am noticing now that a few people are using SSD's, and submitting these as suggestions for disk configurations.
I am considering the idea of buying a couple of small capacity SSD's, (maybe with the marvel controller, that Harm I believe mentioned is better than sandforce for robustness), and in Raid 0. I would use this for my media cache/render preview/pagefile section. Even 2x 60gb ssds striped to provide 120gb, would be more than enough for my standard workflow. Also, if the array goes down, its just temporary cache anyway right?
Why would I use a 1tb 7200rpm drive, when I could go this route instead? I know the 1tb drive would be cheaper, but isn't speed of the essence here? I read a comment that Harm mentioned that "most speed requirements is for scratch, temp and pagefile". I think with a bit of housekeeping, I can delete old render previews, media cache and database entries, and have plenty of room left over with the kind of projects I work on. I'm using around 60 gb for that section right now.
I am thinking now of ditching the hybrid sshd plan, and going for 2xssd low capacity raid 0, and a 3 tb drive as an archive to free up my 1tb drive for footage, exports, and maybe projects.
I am interested to hear whether I am being sily to bother striping 2ssds with my modest setup. Will my motherboard bottleneck somewhere first?
I could just get another couple of 1tb drives, but I feel like I want to challenge that approach as SSD technology and prices have come a long way. SSDs support trim in Raid 0, so whats stopping us?
Also, I may point out that I am looking to upgrade at some point the whole architecture of my PC. I am thinking about the GTX 760 in the near future.

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