Best way to work - internal or external drive

I've been doing hard disk recording since the beginning. It used to be not advisable to record to an internal drive. I know things have improved since then. I wondering if I should move my projects to my iMac's internal (boot) drive?

Personally...
I avoid recording to the system partition at all costs.
At one point my G5 only had a single internal 250GB drive.
I formatted it as a 150GB and 100GB partition, the 100GB partition being the 2nd, and system partition. The first partition became my audio drive.
I forget why I did this as I always use at least a two drive system, point is, it worked quite surprisingly well.
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