Premiere Pro, files and hard drive question

I have heard some people talking about where you should put your
source video files vs. the hard drive where you have Premiere Pro
installed on. Some say that they should never be on the same drive
togehter.

Here is my setup.

C:\ is a Raid 0 Stripe, 500 Gig
D:\ is a normal hard drive Primary ATA channel, 250 Gig

What is the preferred place to install PPro and where should the
original source video files be placed to work on?

Richard Crowley...

In my experience setting up several video editing workstations,
you would be better off with somebody's hand-me-down old
80GB hard drive for C:, and your three 250GB drives as
D:, E:, and F:, exclusively for video/audio files. IMHO,
RAID-0 offers no significant benefit, and has a couple of
definite disadvantages.

Tony...

Raid 0 has far greater read/write speeds than a single drive. I have to use Raid 0 for capturing
uncompressed video @22MB/sec.

RS...

Regale please....

Richard Crowley...

You loose everything on both drives if just one of them fails.
Having experienced several drive failures, that is a show-
stopper for me. OTOH, if you wanted to do RAID-5 or some-
such, then a single drive failure won't take everything with it.

Gene E. Bloch...

Mostly, people recommend that the operating system and all the
applications be on a small partition, say 25 GB, and the remaining
partitions be used for data.

Here's a typical example that I happen to know about :-) I have two
drives. Drive 0, 250 GB, is partitioned into a C: drive of 50 GB and a
D: drive of 200 GB. Recently I added a new drive, drive 1, as a single
500 GB partition.

Since you are not starting from scratch, you would have to obtain
non-destructive partitioning software (Partition Magic is one such
program) to divide your C: drive into two or more partitions. If you
already have more than 50 GB of data on C:, your first partition would
have to be bigger than mine :-)

Partitioning takes a long time, BTW.