Fastest access for library- os disk or seperate internal drive?

Hi, i have just bought an internal SATA 2 500GB drive for my MacPro and am thinking it may be faster and safer to have my library on this drive as oppose to the the OS disk where the Aperture software is installed. Can anyone point me in the right direction with this? I just want everything to run as well as it can,same as everyone else!
Regards
Aidan

What are the specs on your current drive?
You could always run a benchmark on the drives to see how they both perform. AJA Kona Speed Test, or there are a number of tools (Xbench, etc.) that can run some quick tests to see how fast your drives are.
I think in general performance will be about the same -- unless you're running out of RAM and paging to disk on the system drive -- in which case having 2 drives will be faster.

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