DSLR 5dMkII H.264 30p editable format, anything smaller than ProRes, AIC?

First off - thanks to everyone for the wealth of info already posted on this topic! I went from 0-60 in a couple of hours about my workflow options.
So, I'm a newbie with limited resources. This is my first short-film (first film project). See my computer's specs below. I now know that the 5dMkII gives me 1920x1080, 30p (not 29.97 - thought those were the same for a while with the H.264 codec. OK, not even viewable on my machine in QT and painful in FCP.
So I've learned that FCP doesn't like H.264 as an editing format. Now I converted some clips to ProRes. The shorter clips (>30 seconds) look great and flow fine but, the longer clips (3:30) are so big (5GB) that they are chugging and giving me an 8 bit techno song for audio (which I'm thinking about sampling for a future dance project) Viewing them off a USB 2.0 drive isn't working.
Can anyone suggest an alternative HD editable format to ProRes422 or AIC that can maybe bring down the file size?

Sorry, not if you want to work in an editable HD format. DVCPRO HD maybe, but that doesn't save a lot of space over ProRes. ProRes IS the space saving editing codec.
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