Beachball in itunes due to large library?

I got a Mac Pro and recently bought a 3 TB drive that I put inside it for the single purpose of being a itunes drive. I copied over songs, movies and tv-shows. But now when I try to access itunes I get the beachball for 30 sec or so before I can do anything. I got 10 gb ram, and I have the computer on and itunes on 24/7 almost.
Do I get the problem because of the disk? or because my library is large?

Hi,
As gar as you storage is concern how are you using the drive, is it a individual drive or set of drives.
Individual Drive
RAID 1
RAID 0
Performance might vary according to the read/write capabilities of your music drive.
Please let us know how is your drives on MacPro configured

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