MBP, 2 internal hd's, bootcamp on second?

Well, I decided to ditch my optical for ifixit's internal enclosure. I was going to drop a 120gb ssd as the main drive running OSX, then have a ~150gb partition on the 750gb drive for windows 7, and the remaining 600gb as drive space for BOTH os's. Can I do that with bootcamp? I've heard it can be a pain sometimes..

Hd's in question (both on sale!)
SSD: Newegg.com - Kingston HyperX SH100S3B/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (HyperX Upgrade Kit)
HDD: Newegg.com - Western Digital Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

The SSD comes with a 2.5" usb enclosure as well, so the current hd gets to live as an external drive.

Does this sound like a feasable plan? I plan on upgrading to 8gb of ram at the same time, as well. From what I've read this is what most people use:
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-8GBSQ

Sound like a good upgrade plan?

 

I haven't done the first part but G-Skill ram is nice and cheap as well as great performers I'm rocking them in my M18x.

 

Windows can install to an extra drive in there just fine... I used to have a set up with 2 500gb drives in a MBP, one was fully Windows and one was full OSX, so I'm not sure why you'd have a problem partitioning the Windows one.

 

I've just read some threads that sometimes it's screwy when partition tables get crowded. Would everything work well with the 600gb partition on drive #2 as the 'media' drive for both windows and osx?

 

Do ensure that the 600gb media drive is partitioned at Fat32 or another format compatible with both mac osx and win 7. NTFS is not built into OS X and does require a separate (paid) plugin to work with OS X Lion.

Otherwise it should be fine. Don't know if you know but holding down option as the machine turns on allows you to select the os, or boot media. As opposed to the bootcamp target boot crap.

 

I haven't done that, but your plan shouldn't be a problem. For the 600GB media partition, make it exFat. Both Win7 and OSX can read/write it and you won't have the 4GB file limit of FAT32.

For an SSD, I can recommend macsales.com OWC Mercury Electra SSDs. I just got their 120GB drive for my MBP, it's pretty awesome. Also, their "bundles" are cheaper if you need the "optibay" converter thingy too. Their drives are sata 3.0 6gb/s and have the Sandforce controller too. Their kits also come with all the tools you will need which can be a bonus (00 screwdriver, T6 torx, spudger tool) and they are pretty good quality.

http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity|1&Ne=5000&N=6403&Ntt=Mercury+Electra+6G+120GB

 

As long as you use ExFAT on the second drive (not Fat32) it should be fully usable by both OSes just fine.

 

How exactly do you make 3 partitions, bootcamp seems to only make 2. Do you use disk utility?

 

Yep, disk utility can do partitioning and formatting.