What is the best setup for Photoshop CS5 on a Dual Drive Laptop?

I have a new W701ds with Windows 7, 16 gig of ram, drive C is a 256GB SSD, the second drive is 7200rpm 500GB HDD. I want to use was thinking about partioning the second drive to allow for backup. .

Welcome to the forum.
If the partition is ONLY to be used for backup, you are probably OK, but if you plan on using it for say Scratch Disks, I would hold off on that.
With the fast SSD Drive 0, you will have your OS and programs there. Then you will have your images and your Scratch Disks on Drive 1. Even faster would be to have the Scratch Disks on Drive 2, but you only have the SSD and the one SATA HDD, so the former is as good as it gets.
Good luck,
Hunt

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