Use of NAS disk for project material

I intend to buy a new computer. I have used and vill continue use a 2 TB NAS disk in the system to store photos, documents and videolips. It is a Synology DS111 with Gigabit Ethernet connection.
I will use this computer for videoediting. I have used Premiere Pro 1.5 before and DV material and even if the system was not very fast it worked until now. I will purchase Adobe Premiere CS6
I intend to include a 256GB SSD as system disk(Samsung 840 or similar) and a 128 GB SSD as scratch disk.
The rest of the computer will probably be
Intel Core i7 3770K 3,5Ghz (Ivy Bridge)
2x Corsair 8GB (1x8192MB) CL10 1600MHz VENGEANCE
Asus P8Z77-V
KFA2 GeForce GTX 660Ti 2048MB OC
I do not know how Premiere Pro CS6 handles files in runtime so my question is how much the NAS disk will be involved in video editing if I have Premiere Pro installed on the system disk (SSD) and use the second SSD for scratch disk. Video clips will be on the NAS.
Can the videoediting still be fast when rendering and exporting contents except that final storage to NAS will not be lightspeed fast. Any comments on this usage are highly appreciated.
/Stefan

Stefan,
I'm not sure from your post whether your plans are to continue working solely with DV video or whether you have some plans in the future for HD formats.
In any case, I think that you would be much better served by making changes to both your hardware plans and workflow more along the lines of the following:
Single 128GB Samsung 840 Pro (don't get the std. 840, its writes are much slower) - OS/Programs; if you turn off the hibernate feature 128GB should provide plenty of space
Two 1TB 7200 rpm drives and either spread the load (projects and media on one and scratch / cache / outputs on the other) or RAID 0 them and put all files on the RAID array
Do nightly backups of media and project files to your DS111 (orgainze your directory structure so scratch, cache, and output files can be easily ignored from the backup)
This plan with give you way more speed and improved redundancy as well (as the DS111 is only a single drive unit).
With your new faster system you would probably enjoy using the local drives for photo editing work as well, especially if you go with the 2x RAID 0 array option.
Finally, you should probably increase the RAM of your new build to 32GB; what Windows 7/8 does not use for programs is does use for disk caching and that tends to speed things up for photo and video editing workflows.
Regards,
Jim

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