Should I install a Solid State Drive..?

Hello I am editing and rendering HD 1080p and sometimes 4k video from an XD Cam in Final Cut Pro 7 running on a 17" 2011 MacBook pro i7 2.2ghz, 8GB DDR3 1333mhz RAM with 720GB 5400rpm Hard Drive. the video is captured on an external 2TB Hard Drive connected via Fire Wire 800. What I would like to know will it be worth me installing a OCZ Vertex 4 512GB SATA 3 Solid State Drive inside my computer and putting 16 GB of RAM in. will it make a difference in the performance of quality, rendering times and other functions on my software and video I output to Blu-Ray..? remembering that the video is coming from the fire wire 800 drive and going back on there until I burn it to blu-ray. Would I need to set my scratch disk to my SSD to see any benefits of having a SSD instead of a normal HDD. Cheers Danny.

Why not use a Thunderbolt drive? Adding ram isn't going to help but won't hurt. FCP 7 address only a max of 4 GIGs of ram. Your weakest link is the 5400 rpm drive.
I'm thinking about getting 2 Thunderbolt drives. One for the System OS and the other for media storage.

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Yes you can, SSD's are much cheaper now. You can buy from the following reliable vendor, it guaranties its products will work:
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Rick,
When you get a chance.... DSLReports is off line: their SQL server decided to take its indexes and access to data. Power. Not enough of the right kind of UPS. Same happened to StorageReview's "Drive Reliability Database" about 8-9 yrs ago.
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SSD: Loading CS5 plus other little monsters might matter.
Lots of small I/Os
latency of 1/100th where nanoseconds replace those "long" milliseconds
System: Small and fast.
DLLoyd even goes for short-stroking drives to get and maintain highest I/O
The new 10k VRs hit 200MB/sec - I still use them and still find them useful, long lasting, feel responsive with whatever I ask of them. I know they get criticized and "cost too much"
Just bought a new WD Black and yes it is better than the 2008 model I was using.
600GB 10K $200 vs $150-220 for WD Black. your choice
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Database: the pros put the index in memory and page fix (virtual volumes in memory; cache; hold disk drive index in memory). Caching storage has been around for almost 40 yrs.
Today you can use SSDs as front end cache to hold DB indexes and frequent data for web servers and such adn use slower secondary storage.
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I put a large photo library on 2 x 10K VRs vs SSD and couldn't tell much difference (SSD is soundless of course) But my WD Blacks make as much noise and run 15*C hotter than those 10K (not what you expect?)
While 10K and 7.2K are in the 140-180MB/sec range, they are in 3.0 to 12.0 ms seeks, not 0.01 ms.
People wonnder why shrink a drive to 2.5" (or why not go down to 1.8".
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It uses one step to find the "zip code" and then another DSP to find the "house."
True of any high density perpendicular recording mechanism.
And of course while the Raptor-X tried to find a home with famers, Cheetah buyers, the WD 10K line has more of a home where servers and small form factor drives - and 100s of them - can fit in a rackmount server I imagine.
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