Storing my catalog on separate fast internal drive...?

I'm curious as to whether certain performance issues with Lightroom 4 are related to my setup...I am on Windows 7, 12GB RAM, 2 750GB 7200rpm hard drives (internal) and several external drives. The way I have it set up is:
C: - Where Lightroom is installed (duh)
D: (separate internal drive) is where my catalogs are stored
4 external USB 3.0 drives store all my photos.
I feel like Lightroom doesn't like the fact that my catalogs are on a separate drive from the program itself (?), despite being a SATA connected fast internal drive. Does anyone else have this setup? Will it affect performance?
Thanks
p.s. My D: drive is also setup as the primary scratch disk for Photoshop. Could this negatively affect performance?

it shouldn't negatively affect the performance the way that you have described:
reference these links-
http://thelightroomlab.com/2011/03/where-should-i-keep-my-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-catalo g/
http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/03/five_ways_to_speed_up_lightroo.html
http://kelbytv.com/lightroomkillertips/2012/01/19/using-external-drives/
if you feel you are encountering problems, i would try to keep lightroom and the image storage on the same drive....
-janelle

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http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
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http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/time_machine/machd.png
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Message was edited by: powermixx

powermixx wrote:
I want to backup the Macintosh HD onto the G5 Backup but I'm getting the following error:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
I've checked the disc usage and it appears I have enough on the G5 Backup to fit everything from Macintosh HD.
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