Aperture Library on External USB disk

Hello
My internal, 250GB disk on my iMac is almost full.
Are there any performance / reliability issues I should be aware of of moving my 50GB aperture library to an external USB disk ??
I don't use time machine to back it up - just the aperture vaults. I would probably back it up to a second external USB drive.
Any help much appreciated.
Andrew

USB2 is a poor connectivity method for hard drives on Macs, adequate for backup where speed is unimportant but bad news for a Library. Aperture performance is largely about the Library, so you want it on a relatively unfilled internal drive, definitely not on an external USB drive.
Hard drives slow as they fill above 40% or so. Take enough data off the internal drive to maintain at least 100 GB free space and keep the Aperture Library on the internal drive with Referenced Masters on external drives.
In the future buy large hard drives (currently the 1 TB size is cost effective) that have multiple connectivity methods that include Firewire800 and eSATA. One good source is OWC: <http://www.owcomputing.com/>.
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks

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Assuming it's a Managed library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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Regards
TD

Backing up Aperture library on external drive.

Lately I haven't been using Aperture, I've just been organizing all my pictures into folders, and keeping the folders in my Pictures folder. Then making a copy of the whole thing onto my external. I decided to start using Aperture.
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Issues,
I would think it would be enough to put the Vaults, cause that's what I would think the vaults are for. To completely restore the library incase anything goes wrong. But I just wanna be sure before something happens to my computer, and all I have are Vaults that don't do me any good.
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I would like to store my aperture library and all masters on an external hardrive (with a backup). Ideally I'll be able to only transport this external drive to work to edit photos and return home to my personal computer and continue where I left off. I've tried something similar but ran into problems with lost adjustments, etc and am wondering what the simplest method is that others have discovered.
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All the editing work is stored in the *****.aplibrary file.
THe most obvious way will be to keep it on the external drive. If you experience it is to slow with USB you could probably have a better performance with FW800. Probably not so much with FW400.
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The best way to edit on 2 different macs will need in my opinion some extra preparation.
Set both Aperture in exactly the same way pointing to referenced files on the external drive.
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