Anyone used a Solid State Drive to edit in FCPX?

And if so, was editing faster? Either Laptop or Desktop. Anyoen who can share their experiecne would be great.
I use a Macbookpro and I wanted to know before I spend the money on a SDD. Thanks

Dont spend money on an SSD.... Untill FCPx's (Sudden Performance-Descrease) BUG has been fixed.... I have ONLY SSDs... And while they are great when using PPRO for image sequences they give you NO performance boost in FCPx.... If you add an SSD as system drive ALL apps INCL fcpx WILL run faster but reading events and projects are NOT faster...
This app has SERIOUS playback issues... which NO hard drive can EVER fix unless the software is fixed fist. Once FIXED an SSD SHOULD be giving yo MUCH greater power but as of now it wont...
Many WILL disagree with me... BUT... the ONLY thing that will Improve your general performance with an SSD is to install the system on one..... If you dont belive me... Open the console and READ all the errors that FCPx are spitting out every hours... Pixel rounding, openGL etc etc --- errors... are crowding the console...
FCPx will run a tiny BIT faster with an SSD if the system is installed on it but ONLY because it can write virtual memory faster.
Most apps use 1-4% CPU to playback a ProRes 4444 file.. FCPx uses past 100% and whereas is SHOULD be using 4% MAX REGARDLESS of drive speed.
A hard compressed codec uses the CPUs to decode.... an needs LESS disk speed. A LOW compressed codex needs NO (little) processing power to decode the movie... FCPx needs past 100% to decode a NON compressed codex... Go Figure... and go and NOT buy an SSD until those immense performance issue haven been fixed.... which they WILL be... Eventually

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fromx001

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[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ACARD/AEC6280M>
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buggy687 wrote:
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Thanks buggy687
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[SOLVED] Need Some Tips on Solid State Drive

Hello everyone. I need a few tips on my solid state drive, to make sure I have everything configured correctly, and if there is anything I should change. I followed the Wiki, and took a lot of time to make it as perfect as I can, but I guess I need a little sanity check.
First, I followed the Wiki to align my SSD. Here is the output of fdisk -lu:
Disk /dev/sda: 256.1 GB, 256060514304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31130 cylinders, total 500118192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d46a6
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/dev/sda1 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux
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/dev/sda3 21178368 63121407 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 63121408 500117503 218498048 83 Linux
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults,noatime,discard,user_xattr 0 1
none /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0
Does that look good, and/or should I add anything else to it?
Last edited by jlacroix (2011-11-17 00:38:06)

graysky wrote:
Been too long since I've used MBR - I use GPT so it's auto aligned via gdisk, but what you are showing looks fine to me. Your fstab looks fine; for comparison here is mine:
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Thank you for the response. I'll go ahead and mark this solved. I just needed a sanity check, and if you think it's fine, then I'm happy.
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