Standard VS 1 to 1 Previews - and 1400, 1600, 2800 pixels for Preview

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Need conceptual guidance on what to best choose for previews.
I have 600 raw images in a photoshoot.
I want to import them and then be able to see them in Library
Problem is: When I go to look at an image...it takes 10-12 seconds for it to come into focus for me. It says loading.
I tried to do standard previews...then I thought id try 1 to 1 previews...but both are still slow.
Then I saw in preferences where I can do 1000, 1440, 1680 or 2800 pixel previews? What do I pick?
I want to examine my images full size pretty quick without having to wait, wait, and wait for my focus to come in.
I thought that taking the time up front to render them 1 to 1 would be a big help.
Now heres the biggie...dont automatically grab this as an easy answer...im using an external western digital 1TB USB drive to store my images on.
The catalogue is on MY 10,000rpm fast C: drive (are the previews there? or can I make them go there with the catalogue?)
Can someone conceptually help me to understand which way to import and set up preview settings so I get nice fast views of my images without waiting for 12 seconds...or having to put all my shoots on my C: drive. I want to store all my files on an external drive. its a 20mb sec speed drive.
Thanks
Suzzie

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Now in Develop, when you want to view at 1:1 (or greater), LR has to build a different, high quality preview, that takes some time. I suspect this is the delay you are referring to. But these previews are different from the previews used above. The previews once built actually populate the ACR cache so you may want to look at the preferences here and decide if you want to store more of these pre-previews if I can make up a term, so that when you revisit Develop, the previews load much faster.
Of course, you can decide upon import what to do in terms of building the previews. You can pay me now or pay me later. If you want to build the 1:1 on import and walk away, while you edit those images later, everything will be much faster. As you delete images, you are deleting (eventually) preview data you didn’t have to build but then its usually easier to see what images to throw away when you can clearly see them. That’s why I take the speed hit on import, take a coffee break then come back and edit without having to wait too long for the previews to load (its still not instantanious but its much, much faster to build the big previews first).

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