They should be fine as long as you format as macOS Extended (Journaled). APFS 
performance on spinning disk drives is abysmal.
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> On 25 Jul 2022, at 22:18, 'Steve Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Smuggers,
> Does anyone run Photos or iTunes from an external hard drive and would you 
> recommend it?
> I am about to purchase a new MacBook Pro, but don't fancy paying Apples price 
> for a 4TB ssd drive, so I am contemplating using a couple of external 
> spinning drives for one or possibly both these applications.
> Cheers,
> Steve.
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