Aperture Size Over 300GB, is this too big

Greetings,
I have a library a little over 300 GB in size, and growing. I am about to upgrade to Aperture 3, but am scared because if anything happens to this file, I am toast, (all of my family pictures there). I know there are a trillion discussions about how to save files, but my main concern is if I should split the library's up into smaller ones, (perhaps by month), and if so what is the best method of doing so but still have access to the pictures with ease. What is a good size for a library so it is easy to manage.
Thanks in advance.

Michael-
Yours is a common problem, even typical when folks use Managed Masters. With a 300+ GB Library you are no doubt currently using Aperture's (unfortunately default) Managed-Masters setup, which invariably leads to overfilled hard drives on single-drive boxes.
Splitting into multiple Libraries is a very bad idea, unnecessary and defeating of the purpose of an images management app. Once you switch to the more appropriate *Referenced-Masters Library* Aperture will help you keep from overfilling the internal drive.
First off, all *hard drives should be less than 70% full.* That is important for speed and stability. Don't try to do anything until <70% full is achieved for all drives. To get to less than 70% full move data off of the internal drive to external drives.
The Aperture Library should live on the internal drive for best speed.
Best solution (after you achieve minimum 30% free space on all drives), especially with mobility-hardware computers like laptops and iMacs, is to reconfigure your image Masters to have a *Referenced-Masters Library* on the internal drive with the Masters referenced on external drives via FW800 or (preferably) eSATA; however Referenced Masters usually do still work adequately with Masters accessed on externals via slower methods like FW400 or USB. After a slow reconfiguration process it will work fine, your speed and operation will be recovered and the Referenced-Masters Library will remain a reasonable size, not again grow to overfill the internal drive.
Note that Vaults back up the Library but a Referenced-Masters Library does not have the Masters in it, so Masters must be separately backed up. *I very strongly recommend that back up of original Master files be performed BEFORE importing into Aperture.*
Aperture 3 has improved methodology for handling Libraries. I suggest that your steps should be:
• Back up your current Library with its Masters to a Vault on an external drive.
• Move data off of the internal drive to external drives to get to less than 70% full.
• Install Aperture 3 and set it to use your existing Library on the internal drive.
• Back up the Library with its Masters to another Vault on an external drive. Do not delete or over-write the first Vault you made; this second Vault is a redundant copy of the same Library but after conversion to Aperture 3. Probably you will never need either Vault but it is good to be careful.
• Use Aperture 3's tools to reconfigure your Library to be a *Referenced-Masters Library* on the internal drive with the Masters referenced on external drives.
• In the future back up Masters before import into Aperture or any other images management application. Then with the new Masters on external drives select Store Files: "In their current location" from the import window when importing into Aperture. This will maintain a *Referenced-Masters Library*. Routinely create Vaults to back up the Library.
HTH
-Allen Wicks

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