Libraries on separate (internal HD) partition? + bonus rant

Hi. Any opinions on whether having my libraries on their own dedicated partition on my internal HDs (iMac and MBPro) would improve performance? FWIW I am using referenced files, which will continue to live on the boot drive, for now.
Here's the bonus rant:
My A3 experience has gone from elation to frustration to elation almost on a daily basis.
I have followed all the threads here concerning performance and tried to follow all the recommendations. Faces/places off, caches cleaned, previews tweaked, spolight indexing disabled, disks defragged etc, etc, etc and so on and so on... I usually reboot my machines before an Aperture session, and try to make sure that A3 is the only thing running (other than Activity monitor). So much maintenance for a program that's supposed to improve workflow!
I get speedy performance sometimes during adjustments, but sometimes things get so bogged down. I'm talking like 30 seconds to render a sharp view of an adjustment I just made if I am in "zoom" mode, with the infamous "generating thumbnails" activity, which then restarts if I scroll to another part of the photo. Don't even think about making changes to Raw Fine Tuning, NR or sharpening, as those sometimes take up to a minute to render in full zoom view! I'm running the equipment in my sig (not weak machines, but obviously not blinged out Mac Pros with 16-cores and 68GB of ram, which it might take to make this thing render adjustments in real time! (sarcasm alert)
All updates (3.0.1, prokit etc) are done. I am considering going to a witch doctor, or a priest or something to exorcise my machines, as a next step.
If I had to rely on this program to pay my bills, it would have been tossed a while ago. As I am a hobbyist/advanced amateur, I will continue to plug away and hope that somehow Apple figures out how to make this thing more responsive to edits.

JonasLondon wrote:
forget defrag-issues or disk setup... there's got to be more bugs in here somewhere. See this thread also:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2340879&tstart=0
I specifically got new drives for this release, I was so excited. Bring on Aperture 3.2 now already. It's not like the images want to stay in Aperture forever, we want and need speedy exports, preview generation, zoom levels etc.
I have the same slow export problem too but I didn't want to mention it for fear of being labeled a whiner

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