Best place to store FCPX projects?

I wanted to find out where is the best place to store FCPX projects? I import the footage/audio to a external harddrive, but save the projects/render files to computer harddrive. Should I save the projects to the external harddrive where the footage is? Or does it even matter?

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I have a small post production house, and we are spinning up into editing our first series. We're all working from a SAN, and sharing projects and sequences via the Media Browser.
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