Fcpx coexist with fcp7 - separate hard drive?

I have a lot of FCP7 projects that need to be preserved and perhaps edited in the future currently on the intermal hard drive and using OSX-6 Would it make sense to buy a firewire disk, make it a startup disk for Lion and Final Cut Pro X, so I can move forward to FCPX and still conserve the existing projects? I have read the Apple advisory suggesting to keep the two programs on separate partitions. My internal disk is not suitable for making a second partition. I also have several TB of Final Cut Pro 7 video files on external drives.

Ian R. Brown wrote:
There is absolutely no need to make a second partition.
Hey Ian.
For the past 15 months I've run both Final Cuts on the same partition and as you've pointed out to others numerous times the two apps coexist nicely on the same (non-partitioned) drive. So I agree with the advice except…
I have found a reason to partition, which I'm going to do in the next week. I've happily running FC Studio and CS3 on Snow Leopard. However, I have heard from folks who know a lot more about this stuff than I do that FCPX will run better on Lion amd Mt Lion. Also, I often find the camera manufacturer's import plug-ins are not compatible with my "ancient" OS and I am then forced to use our MBP, which runs 10.7, for import – or employ work-arounds. So I will have a dual boot system – SL and ML
Time will tell whether it was worth the hassle.
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