Samples + Loops on Ext Drives for both LS + GB - The DEFINITIVE Primer

+(am cross-posting this to the GarageBand forum as well)+
The subject line of this thread is something I wish I could offer; instead it's what I'm hoping someone here can point me to.
The rest of this post is details...
I know this theme has been much-discussed from various perspectives. I've already read, saved and even printed out many threads from this and other forums, along with FAQs from Apple and other sites. Some of them deal primarily with Loop content; some focus mostly on Samples (and some even confuse the two). Some offer workflows only for Logic; others just for Garageband. Some of the threads go back a version or two for one or both of the apps in question, leaving the reader unsure as to which bits of information are still current.
And within each of the above there are endless streams of "Just do this, this, then this -- but oh yeah, watch out for that"; often countered by "Well I wouldn't worry about x so much as y and z -- then again, YMMV"
So...
Given that hard drive space (as "cheap" as it is) is still not limitless;
and given that many Logic Studio and/or GarageBand users need to free up space on their internal drives by getting as much "media content" as possible onto external drives...
Has Apple (or anyone else) published, kept updated and made freely available the following:
An official, definitive Best Practices Guide for users of both Logic Studio and GarageBand (in their most current versions), offering detailed (but clear), exhaustive (but in simple step-by-step form), illustrated and easy-to-follow instructions for both Loops AND Samples, including:
-ALL of their default install locations (for both LS and GB);
-exactly how each app searches for them and keeps track of them;
-and most importantly, exactly how each type of media (and which specific folders and files therein) can be safely relocated to an external drive, so that ALL of that relocated media can still be accessed by BOTH apps?
This is the kind of thing which might have to divided into several workflows, depending on whether the user has only Logic Studio, only GarageBand, or (as in my case) both. (For example: did your Jam Pack content get installed individually, or as part of the Logic Studio installation? And does that fact make any difference to their default locations?)
There may need to be special footnotes for users not employing the current versions of either app, or who are working in a pre-Leopard OS.
But I dream of one file I can print out that will finally settle all the uncertainties about what can be moved vs. what shouldn’t be moved (vs. what CAN’T be moved); which folders of Samples can be aliased vs. which ones should be “Sym Linked” (in which apps); and, as for the Loops, what content needs to be re-Indexed in both apps (and how, and when).
Does ANYONE know of such a Holy Grail of need-to-know knowledge?
John Bertram
Toronto

Then what would you suggest? Do you store your samples on an internal drive? What about you media files (audio/video)? Firewire 800 is not fast enough?
I'm asking if I need an empty formatted drive or partition to create a clone. Are you saying I don't? I already have files on my external can I now just create a clone of my system drive or will it ask me to format it first?

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