External Boot Drive on Mac Mini -- how do you use internal drive?

[TLB]

For folks that use an external drive such as the miniStack as your boot drive to increase performance and space--what do you put on your internal drive? Is it space of last resort with just a backup boot partition? If actively used do you load apps or just use it for document files? Any strategies or experiences you would like to share would be appreciated.

[jdc]

use it as a backup boot drive

keep all of your music on it

keep all of your photos on it

mini is essentially a laptop without a screen, millions of people use their laptops as the only mac they own, and the whole drive speed seems to be a very small issue -- and they use it for everything...up to Final Cut Pro

[incognegro]

I like the idea of a backup boot drive.

[Zoidberg]

SuperDuper cloned drive. Use the external as your daily use (faster) but clone it to the internal regularly. (I have an iMac (which I clone to a miniStack) but I have a few friends who have the Mac mini & miniStack combo, and this is what they do.)