Can I keep 1 large catalog on internal hhd and ext hhd w/o issues?

I have grown my catalog to large to keep on my MBP 500 gig hhd alone with all my other files. I have considered splitting my catalog into 2 or more catalogs. I need the ability to sort all my photos in 1 catalog. I have read and studied about this for too long. I searched for a long time to find only one person who said that he had 1 catalog on his internal and ext hhds. I found no info on how to specifically do this. Not wanting to do strange things with my catalog I have been studying the issue. Today, I found the answer to the last issue. I now have a portion/oldest of my photos on a nas hhd. It all shows up in LR and the catalog backs up and checks integrity without issues. To me this is perfect and I can not believe that it is not common practice. I have all my photos/previews at my finger tips without carrying the huge file around that includes my oldest photos. Please tell me what troubles lie in my future. Thanks Geoctd1

A LR catalog is not supposed to be on networkable storage, like NAS, because that raises the possibility that more than one computer could be reading and writing to the database at once, and LR is not setup for multiple users going against one catalog database. 
LR tries to detect you're using networkable storage and normally refuses to let you do it.  Have you done something special that precludes LR from knowing the catalog is not local, either internal or on a USB/FW drive?
Secondly, your subject suggests you want to have a catalog on both an internal and an external drive, but your "solution" seems to describe a catalog only on NAS.
Can you clarify what you're really doing and what you're asking about?

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