Where is the best place to store your media

Hi there
I am using a Mac book pro with an external monitor which I used FCE on, am I right in thinking that it is better to have all your media that you use in FCE connected to an external hard drive which then is connected to the laptop, is this the best way to get your media into your project at a fast speed?.
The external hard drive is a lacie mini hub hd.
at the moment I have all my projects opening from where I save them to..... in the movies on the hard disk. Could somebody please advise if this is the best way to proceed.
Thanking you in advance.
Denis

Hi Denis.
The ideal method, especially if you are producing videos of gargantuan proportions, is to have all your media on a dedicated external HD as the other posters have mentioned.
However, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't continue using your internal HD if it works OK for you and you are not using vast amounts of video and other media.
Of course if you find you are running out of space or having other problems caused by a cluttered HD, you definitely need to make use of an external. (FW400 is more than fast enough for anything you are likely to need).

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