Ye old partitioning debate, with a new twist.

Ok, maybe not entirely new, but a new dilemma for me. Up until now I've subsisted with a 160GB scratch disk, and pushing project scratch media onto a 250GB firewire drive in a pinch that is used for archiving old projects.
My business is now moving at a pace that that limited amount of space isn't enough to hold my scratch needs when I have many simultaneous projects. So I bought a 500GB Seagate 7200.9.
Now, realistically, I doubt that I'll use more than 300GB at any given time for scratch media--so I don't want to "waste" the 200GB remainder.
Assuming that I decide to create a 300GB scratch partition, what are some other things that would be safe to move to the same drive, without causing situations that would require drive head movement. Like, can I move my iTunes library there and free up 17GB of my system drive? Non-FCP projects and data from my Documents folder?
Does Rob Griffith's overzealous partitioning schemes (http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/10/partitionsave/index.php) have any value considering our specific needs that aren't shared by other professionals?
Backups are a non-issue. I have dedicated drives to mirror my system drive, and backup my archived projects. Should I just let the 500GB sit as a single partition and "carefully" make use of it's storage capacity when my other drives overflow? My system drive is only a 160, and has only 40GB free on it. The 17GB from iTunes is looking like an attractive move. Or should I run that from the 250GB Firewire?
Should I not make this decision while drinking a couple McEwan's Scotch Ales? Probably! Hence the post.
2x2 G5 PowerMac   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

Fragmentation occurs on drives whether or not they're partitioned. Your media files will become fragmented as you move captured clips on and off the drive. It's the nature of the beast.
One advantage I can see in having a separate media partition is that when you're done with a project, you could reformat just that volume in order to start your next project with a clean slate - so to speak.
But on my system, with multiple projects online at any given time, and media being captured and deleted for various projects as I go, that wouldn't work for me. I simply defragment using Tech Tools Pro every other month.
-DH

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