Create new Library on internal Hard Drive.

My A3 was extremely sluggish. All functions work, but they are all sloooooowwww.
Created an Aperture Library in my internal HD instead of External HD. Seems to have picked up some speed. Was wondering if any of you guys have noticed a performance difference based on where your Libriary icon is kept. Onboard or off?
I use only referenced files.
MBP 17 gloss older gen//2.6 core 2 duo intel// 4g ram. ///10.6.2

What kind of external drive were you using? USB? FW400? FW800? Or was it on a network drive? Makes a big difference. Also the rpm and cache size of the drive can make a big difference as well.
I have the "library" on the internal and the image files (referenced) on a FW800 drive.

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