FCPX slow for editing

I'm surprised that FCPX 10.1.4 is so slow for editing, compare to FCP7.
I'm on it since 2 months, and I love a lot of features, but I'm so frustrated with the color wheel turning for each editing point...
I read a lot of post and then I add 16gb of RAM , so I have now 32 Gb on an Imac 27" i5 with Thunderbolt disk and Fusion drive.
So my config is not a macpro, but not so bad...
My editing is a classic 4 minutes corporate video, with speed motion, titling, black border, nothing extravagant...
Shooting codec is XDCAM EX in 1280x720... and I bought this machine to go to 4K thanks to my new Sony FS7 camcorder...
I don't think I will go far with a so slow software to edit 4K...
Is there trick to speed up the editing process ?
Main point is the rendering, each time you do a change FCPX render it, compare to FCP7 that was waiting for you to telling him to render... so you can concentrate on your editing, not waiting the wheel to stop turning...
I don't understand why FCP7 is so much faster on a 5 years old imac than a new one...
I'm not so sure that investing in a macpro will change dramatically the speed...

hmmm... just re-enacted your timeline:
two 'cropped' videos, a color-bar, a title, 4k ... :
my source is 4k from a Lumix FZ1000, h.264mp4, 100MBs, NOT optimized!
==> no 'rendering', no beach-ball... ok, a lil' stutterish, my fastest drive is just a software Raid0 made with two tiny 2.5" Toshibas for 99€
But manageable ...
I would check your Drobo if it is 'set' for handling video streams with FCPX.
In my hobbyist set-up, all drives are for sure hfs formatted...
No idea about SAN & Co, ntfs, ethernet, stuff .....
PS: with optimized media (as Innocentius recommends) complete hassle-free … MacMini, late 2012, 16GBRam, no dedicated GPU
and my stuff can handle FCPX without ext. converters, HA, you viking (<< int. joke)

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