FCP and internal drives for media

Does anyone have an opinion on whether it's better to put your video on external drives or internal drives when editing. I have a Mac Pro and was thinking about putting my broll on one of the 3 extra drives and work with that. Would it slow the system down? Better to keep it external?
Thanks for your thoughts.

I realize this thread is about three months old, but I thought I would ask a related question. My external esata is out of service. If I use the internal bays, is it okay to just put the captured media on one specific drive? Or does there need to be a Raid? I'm outputting as SDI out to DVD's as one-offs. And sometimes I have to output as MPEG files to our in-house video server.
Bay One: Boot Drive
Bay Two: Graphics, Pictures, Animations, Music
Bay Three: Capture Scratch Disk
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