Still have some configuration questions for SSD/HDDs and Pr Pro (laptop)

Hi guys,
So I recently asked a question regarding configurations for a new Toshiba Qosmio (being delivered in 2 days)  I've done a lot of reading and have become somewhat more educated and somewhat more confused.  I'm having the X70-ABT3G22 custom built with an i7-4700MQ, a 256GB mSATA SSD, 2 matching 500GB (7200rpm Serial-ATA) HDDs, a 3GB GeForce GTX 770M, and 32GB DDR3L 1600MHZ SDRAM.
It was suggested that I RAID 0 the 2 HDDs, which sounds like a great idea.  My question then, is the configuration of Premiere Pro with the - now 2 drives left.  I was reading about disk set-up on http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page/84-disk-setup/95-disk-setup  which was very informative.  But the information there suggests that if I have 2 drives, I should consider adding a 3rd.
At this point, there's no room for a third internal drive because the 2 have been striped to make 1, The SSD is obviosly for the OS and programs. And if Premier Pro functions more efficiently by spreading the workload over at least 3 disks, would I be better off by not striping the 2 matching HDDs and spreading the workload out?  Or should I stripe the 2 internal drives and use a USB 3.0 flash drive for the previews, media cache, or exports? Or stripe the 2 HDDs and just work with the 2 internal drives without anything external?  I'm looking for suggestions from you guys for the best way to configure this particular set-up.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Serioulsy.
Thanks again
Todd

I do not know if a USB3 RAID box would be any better than my simple experiment that I tried.  See my thread for item 2 in the first post.  I bought a 2 1/2" external enclosure which I researched extensively for what sounded like it had an optimized SATA III to USB3 interface.  I put one of the fastest SSD drives I am aware of (Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB) in it to see what the performance would be.  When I put this SSD in my laptop directly on an internal SATA III with my PPBM6/7 benchmark it gives me a Premiere write transfer rate of almost 500 MB/second.  When I put the same drive in the external USB3 enclosure the Premiere write transfer is limited to slightly less than 200 MB/second which probably better than a most hard disk drives, but now where near taking advantage of the speed capability. 
The answer to your question is yes, you can use an external hard drive RAID enclosure effectively but do not expect much more speed from that device.  You will have more reliability if you set it up for the right RAID mode.  Using hard drives you will have much greater capacity than SSD's offer.  The only disadvantages with a large multidisk USB3 enclosure is you will always have to have another AC cord to plugin and dragging a large disk enclosure around is a pain.  The small 2 1/2" enclosure above is self powered and highly portable.
Do not believe many of the advertised read/write rates of these USB3 devices, specifically the write rates are not what you can achive in real life applications.
I just checked and your Toshiba laptop does not have eSATA so I think you are limited to only USB3 peripherals. 

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