ITunes library too large? (Video and Audio)

iTunes 11.3.1
Apple TV 3 iOS 6.2 (6698.99.50.31)
My iTunes library is very close to filling my 3TB external HDD. It includes music, TV Shows, Movies, podcasts, etc. I have 3 main problems.
The most annoying is when something is wrong with my internet, it takes forever to start streaming TV Shows and Movies. Up to 5 minutes to begin or more. With music files, it starts immediately. This is all taking place on my home network. My server is a Mac mini and it is sitting less than 4 feet from the Apple TV 3. When the internet is functioning fine, however, streaming usually begins within a few seconds. Nothing changes with the local network, only the connection to the internet. This should not affect streaming from iTunes to the Apple TV, but it does.
Updating metadata is a royal pain. Sometimes (and there seems to be no pattern), updating metadata takes 5-10 minutes per file, and if the track (on a playlist) changes during this process, the next file will not start streaming until the metadata finally finishes writing. This happens whether or not an image is included in the metadata change. Sometimes, it changes right away. It's maddening when I'm doing it because I have to stop what people in the household are watching to get it going again by force quitting iTunes.
The video library, especially the movie library, has gotten to where it only sporadically shows the artwork in the iTunes library. If it doesn't show up there, there is a very good chance that it doesn't show up in the Apple TV as well. If I leave iTunes alone than the artwork for the movies on the screen eventually show up, but it might take hours. Then the next time I go in and look, it has lost much of the artwork for the movies again. However, Get Info shows the artwork is actually still there, as does third party metadata tag editors. The artwork is there, but it will not show up on about half of the movie library, and it isn't always the same movies.
These problems seem to be happening more and more the larger the library grows. I have thought about making multiple libraries, however, all libraries need to remain online so the Apple TV can access them all. If this is the problem causing the above issues, the only thing I know to do is to divide the library into multiples and run them all on different.
Now, this machine also runs OS X Server, with the File Sharing, DHCP and DNS servers all running. If this isn't a result of the almost 3TB library size, could it be that the machine is overloaded?
Thanks for your help and advice in advance,
Scott

To clarify, currently on the 2TB external drive are music and videos. I want to split them up and hopefully save some space - and maybe foresee problems in the future when I hit max capacity on the 1TB external, and think about a 4GB (not the best option I see at this time) or another 2 2TB drives.
Doesn't the Library file just save locations when iTunes closes down so everything should be OK? I mean, the prog can recognize everything, it just won't download to anything, even if I move from the external drive an older movie to the new drive, it refuses to "see" the movie so I can download it.

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