What is the OEM 640 Drive?

I've done some looking and can't find to find a definitive answer:
What is the stock 650GB drive that ships with the 09 MP?
I'm ordering my MP tomorrow and would like to have a WD Black drive for my boot volume:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319&Tpk=WD6401AALS
Plan is to then move OEM drive to bay 3 as a backup volume, and have either a 1.5TB 7200.11 or 1TB 7200.12 drive in bay 2 as a data drive.

An etching knife and magnifying glasses do the trick!
Just use the Partition tab in Disk Utility and set to two partitions, use "1" and leave 2nd as storage or even 'free space' is all that's needed.
No need to use all 599GB, and SuperDuper will optimizes all the directories - uses its own "intelligent design" for what folders go where, though I have my own method for doing things.
I put a 4-8GB 'holder image' on the drive first, that locks the outer zone from being used while cloning. Later remove it and let the system migrate files as needed, even though the file system uses its own hot list directory and some caching.
And if you have Intech Speedtools and ZoneBench, run those. In fact, I highly recommend setting ZoneBench to its highest possible numbers (511MB test file, 50 zones, write 30x over) to test and force drive to loosen up heads, hammer at tracks, insure there are no bad or weak sectors.
If you own SoftRAID, it is a nice partitioning tool, will alert on I/O errors, and very flexible. And with RAIDs, you can easily set up multiple RAIDs on your drives, say you want to have a 3 drive scratch using the outer 100GB of each and use the rest for media library.

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