OK to keep Final Cut session files on startup disk?

I have all my media on external hard drives. Is it best to also best keep the Final Cut session files on an external drive? I'd like to keep them on the startup disk so that I can use Time Machine to back them up for me. Is that ok?
Thanks,
John Link

The system drive has a lot to do. It is accessing OSX including managing the virtual RAM that OSX always has open, accessing the FCP program as well as any widgets, apps, and a multitude of background process. If I can throw the FCP project on another disk, it relieves the drive one more thing. And since FCP is very drive intensive, anything I can do to help may be useful.
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