LVM or not?

[Bob Hartung]

Hi all,
   I am putting together a new workstation, test bed, learning tool with 
hardware RAID 1 on two 300 Gb HD.  After reading through the online docs 
it seems that I have no use for LVM in this environment.  Yet Disk Druid 
uses this as the default on a new installation.

So,

1.  Is there any sense in using LVM in my situation?

2.  I am planning on this as a partition scheme:
      /boot
      /
      /home
      /usr/local

      Other suggestions?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Bob