System confing - folder locations - help

Hi,
I was watching a video tutorial of FCP at lynda.com... they strongly suggest you to have this set up
1. Create one folder on your Mac HD where you will store all the files an fcp documents
2. Create another folder on a 2nd Drive where you will store all the media... this folder is where your scratch disks will be pointing..
According to the author, this increases the performance of your computer since your Mac HD is only used for applications and running processes and the 2nd drive is for storage...
I saw this:
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
My question is... is it better to get another hard drive? or I could a partition on my Mac HD?... this question sounds stupid and ignorant, at least for me... a disk partition makes the new parts independent from one and the other?.. or I must have another hardrive without doing the partition?
Thanks for your time

Here a range o good drives, FW may well be enough for you indeed, read the info in the links below for all the details that you need:
http://www.g-technology.com/products/products.cfm?interest=all
http://www.CalDigit.com/FireWireVR.asp
http://www.dulcesystems.com/html/products.html
G.

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Thank you! I ran psedbtool and the output shows the catalog has the wrong drive letter for the L: drive.
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psedbtool version 1.07
Opening catalog C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\Moms pics\catalog.pse7db
Photoshop Elements version:      7
Total files               :   4833
Total files missing       :      0
Total files offline       :    278
Total files wrong volume :      0
****** Volumes with warnings: 1
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Path used by PSE        : F:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : MEDIA
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Id                      : 32520
Path used by PSE        : M:
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Status                  : online
Total files             : 938
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : FreeAgent Drive
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Id                      : 93626
Path used by PSE        : E:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
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Id                      : 93625
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Total files wrong volume: 0
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Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : //dmzhost/media
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Id                      : 26948
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Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
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Total files missing     : 0
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D:     builtin_drive    F408-1CB0
E:     builtin_drive    025A-4B70
F:     builtin_drive    1C2F-9805
G:     builtin_drive    242D-15ED
H:     readonly_drive   0000-0000
I:     builtin_drive    427D-3F6B
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