How to set the HD's for editing ?

[Dash1]

I am a proud owner of a new and powerful computer that will be used for
home editing too.
As requested i did get 2 HD's. One 640G and the other 1TB.
each HD was devided into 2 . The C is 100G and D is the rest ~500G
while the E + F are ~500G each.
DO i put the Win [XP for now] and ALL other programs[Office plus Adobe premium set]
In the C drive and direct all workflow to F ???

[Nelson37]

I would go that way, note that C and D in one pair and E and F together are functionally single drive units, no real performance advantage gained by the partitioning. Housekeeping only. IOW, going from C to D is not as fast as going from C (or D) to E (or F).

Also, be alert to how the drive letters are assigned, the pairing may not be as expected. C will be first partition of first drive, but D may be first partition on second drive as opposed to second partition on first drive.

[DarrellS]

I would get a small drive for the OS (80 or 160GB) and use the other two drives for storage.

C:\ = 80GB (operating system and programs)
D:\ = 640GB (capture drive)
E:\ = 1 TB (storage drive)

[deadrats]

I am a proud owner of a new and powerful computer that will be used for
home editing too.
As requested i did get 2 HD's. One 640G and the other 1TB.
each HD was devided into 2 . The C is 100G and D is the rest ~500G
while the E + F are ~500G each.
DO i put the Win [XP for now] and ALL other programs[Office plus Adobe premium set]
In the C drive and direct all workflow to F ???

why did you partition the hard drives? since the 640 gb hdd is probably a 7200 rpm part and the 1 tb hdd is probably a 5400 rpm part i would install the OS and apps on the 640 gb hdd and use the rest of the space available from both hdd's for storage.

[Noahtuck]

why did you partition the hard drives? since the 640 gb hdd is probably a 7200 rpm part and the 1 tb hdd is probably a 5400 rpm part i would install the OS and apps on the 640 gb hdd and use the rest of the space available from both hdd's for storage.

Why do you assume that ?

Every 1tb drive i have looked at to purchase (which has been quite a few) has been 7200rpm, except one seagate barracuda which was 5900rpm.

If these are new SATA drives i would assume they are 7200's ?

[Dash1]

They are both 7200 rpm with 32mb mem.
The devision was done. whats the best way to go from here ?

[fritzi93]

What Nelson37 said. OS on one drive, editing on the other. And yes, there can be "housekeeping" advantages, fragmentation comes to mind. For instance, you could have raw footage/projects on "E" and finished projects on "F", or whatever. Ephemeral files that will soon be deleted are on one partition only. Files kept intact for long-term could perhaps be stored on "D".

Make certain the assigned drive letters are as you expected. Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Change if necessary.

[EDIT] What DarrelS suggested would probably be best. I personally have no quarrel with how you've partitioned, but others will say it is less than ideal.