What's a decent set up for a Premiere Pro, CS5 noob?

Hey there, I'm a Premiere Pro noob and I'm trying to assemble my first editing PC. I'm completely new to all of this, so I've just been doing some research and I have come up with this list. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions of changes I could make, or maybe there are things that I'm missing that I should consider. I assume one of the first things I'll hear is the the hard drives are too small - 3 x 320GB. I'm mostly concerned with keeping the cost down. I was hoping to set up my PC for 1500, so I'm spending that little bit more already. I don't want to overclock and I'll be mostly editing AVCHD, so there's no need for RAID afaik. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

My 3 hard drives are configured as...
1 - 320Gig Boot for Win7 64bit Pro and all program installs
2 - 320Gig data for Win7 swap file and video project files
3 - 1Terabyte data for all video files... input & output files
Your data drive really needs to be larger than 320Gig
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