Compressor writing to OS drive

I have had this trouble with compressor 4.0 also. I just switched to AME instead until 4.1 thinking Apple would have fixed the big issues. Still same thing. I set my output to my external and watch it start writing at 1-3mb/s to my SSD OS drive. Also even with the 1 extra instance on for my 2012 iMac I only get a total of 500% average CPU usage vs AME 700% average.
Is there a fix for these two issues or am I just going to have to keep using AME CC?
The biggest concern is the writes to SSD as I don't want to be up for an SSD replacement in one years time and pay Apple a grand just to replace it.

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I have a 2.16GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro with the 100GB 7200 RPM HDD and 1GB 667 RAM. I am trying to use my MBP with a Western Digital 250GB MyBook Essential external HDD connected via USB 2.0.
The external HDD used to be formatted with FAT32 (I was unaware) and I could read and write small files to the drive with no problem. However, when I tried to copy my iTunes folder to the drive (21.7 GB) I would always get an error soon after the transfer began. The error message reads:
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In my experience, it was a BAD EXTERNAL DRIVE...
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Doing this will kill the entire drive, but will allow you to verify that you can write to the whole drive... (in addition to erasing everything on it.. )
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/dev/disk0s2 186G 124G 62G 67% /
devfs 97K 97K 0B 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
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this next step will go and write zero's to the whole drive.. if you are not so adventures you could just read from the entire disk.. if there are major problems then the read will not work either.
SO: to write in the terminal do the following: THIS WILL KILL THE DISK YOU ARE TESTING... INSURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING...
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dd if=/dev/disk1 | hexdump -C
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00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
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Error Code -36 writing to external drives

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I was working in Final Cut Pro with a project, and I updated to 10.5.7 (dumb, I know). The next time I tried to open my project, it returned the message "The project is unreadable, or may be too new for this version of Final Cut."
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Once i knew it was the firewire connection and not the drive itself i simply unplugged my iSight camera (the only other firewire device connected to my machine), reconnected my external drive via firewire and the problem is now corrected.
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