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my suggestion would be to
-leave Logic and its libraries on the internal drive. my reasoning is that you want a setup where you can attach a different external drive for different projects without any hiccup in the installation
-put your project sessions on an external drive. this takes the load off the internal drive and it's good for organizing things to boot.
-journaling is well worth the hit in performance in my opinion; it is the next best protection to a UPS in the event of power failure, as it insures the integrity of the drive if it's shut down abruptly. it also saves a ton of time if you restart after such a failure, as the file system check is very fast
-eSATA is a great way to connect the external drives if you can. I'm using a Sonnet Tempo ExpressCard/34 with a MacBook Pro to attach eSATA drives, and it's smokin' fast. On top of that, it leaves the firewire bus free for audio interface duties.
-use a raid configuration on the external drives if you want top reliability. I think it's a waste, myself, unless you're tracking a prima donna who would get you killed if she lost a take or something. Backing up is important, RAID might make sense in a backup server, but I think it's overkill for actual tracking duties so long as you are doing real backups. I mean, unless you RAID the internal drive as well, you're not really bulletproof from disk failures even with RAID on the project drive.
hth,
-synthoid
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