What is the best setting?

I was a little concerned about this, in the system settings for FCE...I already set all of my scratch disks in the scratch disks tab for all of my video imports (scratch1, scratch2, scratch3, scratch4)
But where should I set my (waveform cache, thumnail cache, autosave vault)...should I set them with my scratch drives or set them to the harddrive itself...or does it even matter? Is there a default that I should follow?

But where should I set my (waveform cache, thumnail cache, autosave vault)...should I set them with my scratch drives or set them to the harddrive itself...or does it even matter?
I leave mine on the system drive.
Auto Save Vault (in particular) would be pretty much useless as a backup if a dedicated Scratch Disc died on you. You would loose the files and the backups. Always back up Project Files anyway.
Al

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