Recording onto external hard drives

I have been having trouble recording guitar with direct input. (I am probably getting the apogee one soon) The sound is in perfect time when I record it but when I play it back it is off time, and needs to be nudged to sound correct again. I have also been recording onto an external hard drive lately, will this effect the problem in any way? Do any of you record onto external drives or do you use the computers built in hard drive?

Sorry for the miss communication, the off timing occurs when I record onto my macbook pros internal hard drive (and that was with garageband but I am now using logic express). I don't know what the rotational speed is, but I have three external hard drives, is there a way to tell? Do you record onto an external drive or the built in drive?
Thanks, Jv-

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