The best hard drive setup in a Mac Pro

My two 640 GB WDC drives have been a bit flacky lately, so I decided to let them "retire". My new setup (to arrive on Friday) are two 1TB Samsung SATA's and one 480 OWC Extreme SSD disk. I've done the research, but are still in doubt:
Would you agree that I would get the most responsive system, by installing the OS X and samplers and Virtual Instruments on the SSD and then format to the two 1TB with two partitions on each. The first (ones) to function as work drive and the second (ones) to function as a placeholder for older finished projects. This way I used the SSD for the system, the fastest part of the SATAs for current projects and the slowest part of the disk for long term storage. Agree? Or did I misunderstood something?
BTW I am running fairly large ProTools mixing sessions 120 tracks of sometimes 4 hours audio. Also running songwriting sessions with fewer tracks (in the 80s) but with loads of VI's.
Mac Pro 2 x 2.26 Ghz (early 2009) 12 GB ram. Any comments or suggestions are extremely welcome...

I have seen a lot of change in Green drives and new models, be sure the reason it is cheap is trying to off load and get rid of stock.
Some people have no trouble and use them without issue. External USB for TimeMachine can result in the drive parking and OS X and TimeMachine losing communicating. While others have used them even in arrays inside w/o trouble.
3TB Green has been popular. I've only used 1 and 1.5TB though.

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