This is exactly what I’m doing now. I have couple WD blacks on my PC, and I split off the files accordingly.
The performance I can bear with as my PC is a Corei7 with 12 gigs of ram running 64BIT.
The reason I asked the above question is, for some reason I got the idea from other posts, saying transcoding will give better real-time editing performance and improve quality (Prores 422), but if thats not the case on Windows based system, then i guess i should be fine.
Thanks for all the suggestions.