External Hard Drive for soft sampler libraries?

[audioliquid]

Is there any performance reason to NOT put soft sampler libraries on an external drive (FW400)? I want to avoid putting them on my audio drive if possible (G5 can only have 2 internal, so drive 3 would have to be external). I'm sure if the soft samplers actually LOAD the files it's a non-issue, but if they actually STREAM the data, would there be an issue? I think FW400 can do up to 50GB/sec or something like that, so it's a far cry from what an internally connected drive would be able to handle (150GB/sec on orig spec SATA).

Thanks for any advice!

[xsub]

I use an external hard drive, it uses USB2 and doesn't have any issues.

[dougsyo]

In my case, the internal drive of my laptop is slow (probably 5400 rpm) and space is tight because the laptop is used for more than music.

I made room for Kompakt sounds and a few third-party Kontakt and sampletank libraries, DimPro and soundfonts on my C: drive. All of my Wusik and most of my Sampletank/Miroslav and Kontakt sounds sit on a large external USB2 drive.

The big down-side of this is that the stuff that sits on the external drive gets a lot less use - I'm like "ok, if I want to use X I have to hook up the USB drive" and it sometimes just doesn't get done - I think about alternatives instead.

Doug