Project slowing down

I am working on an HDV project with about 6 sequences most are short 2 to 30 minutes, 2 of them are much long 45 and 50 minutes with at least 100 small to large motion clips. I am working on a drive that only has firewire 400, I recommended that my client get a firewire 800 but the didn't. Now when we work in the 45 minute, it takes a lot longer for the clips to load in when we move to different parts of the sequence. There also seems to be a lot more problems requiring me to either restart FCP or the computer itself. Is this because we need a firewire 800 drive or is their something else we can do.
Thank you
Vince

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