Fusion or SSD for Editing with FCPX?

Hello,
I'm about to buy a new iMac with 3.4GHz, 32gb Ram and use this mostly for video editing with Final Cut Pro X, and sometimes with Logic Studio and Photoshop but my main concern is with FCPX.
I'll also use it with an external drive.
I'm just trying to avoid buyers remorse.
Is there an advantage going full 768GB SSD on this beast vs going with the Fusion 3TB?
I've been looking for similar posts over the past couple of days but I can't really find any that go over the pros and cons of each.
Which way would you go and why?
Thanks

I have an iMac 3.4Ghz 16GB ram and 3TB fusion drive. It works great with Final Cut Pro X.
The Fusion Drive has a 128 GB SSD integrated with a 3TB sata hard drive that appears as a single volume.
The SSD is great for placing small files that are frequently accessed. So having your OSX and your apps on the SSD portion of the Fusion drive really speeds things up. Video files, on the other hand are typically large and sequential. There is no real advantage of having them on an SSD, but the Fusion works great for video at SATA speeds.
Most video editors recommend using external Firewire or Thunderbolt drives for FCPX Events. If you are editing from a single camera, Firewire speeds are plenty. SATA is even faster.
If you are editing from multiple cameras using the multicam feature, you can either use proxy media and be fine at Firewire speeds, or you can use Thunderbolt and a RAID setup for speeds that enable you to do multicam at full resolution. The key is a fast RAID, because a single drive will not come close to being able to keep up with the speed available in Thunderbolt. You need multiple drives to fill the thunderbolt channel at close to its maximum speed.
Larry Jordan (well known FCP trainer dude) posted some blog posts about his iMac configuration recently. These are well worth reading.
http://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/2033
http://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/2084

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That is a 17" right? I am going to buy a 15" I think.
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Poikkeus wrote:
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