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My current set up is I've got nothing stored on my laptop other than program's all my photos are stored on a external drive so when I open bridge and PS iTs constantly read/writing to the external drive ..... I've just been sitting thinking would it speed things up even just a tiny bit if it was all on the laptop hard drive and the external was only used as a back up?
 
So what do you use as a backup at the moment?
 
I have a bigger external which holds all my back ups

Was just wondering if it's reading writing to an external drive every time I'm doing something photo related it must be slower then if it was on the actually laptop internal hard drive
 
Depending on the interface yes, if its USB then there's the speed limitation of the port and overhead incurred, if its eSATA then this is negated to a high extent. I believe USB 1.1/2.0 also won't allow you to use other tech such as NCQ which can give a nice boost in I/O.
 
In short, as its USB then yes you will get better performance if your images were on the laptop HDD.
 
unless its USB 3! ( sorry to throw that in dont mean to confuse...
usb 2.0 ( pretty much bog stanard is around 30mb/s .. USB 3.0 ( the new standard ( i say new its been around about 3 years or more now ) is around 625 MB/s ( though in real world terms its less than half that and most modern hard drives arent capable of that speed anyway so more like 150-160 MB/s
eSATA comes in 3GB/s and 6GB/s speed again its actually limited by your hard drives read /write speeds which can be upto around 150-160 Mb/s ( unless SSD then its upto around 500MB/s.

if your using a mac you have possible option of Firewire 800 ( around 70 MB/s read and write ) or Thunderbolt which again will be as far as your hard drive .

in summary if using an external hard drive to be in line with your internal hard drive speed you need to be using eSATA, USB 3 or Thunderbolt . USB 2 will be slower and so will firewire.
thats without even going into NAS devices of course ( network attached Storage )
 
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