Will moving my video events to internal harddrive speed up editing?

I want to move my final cut pro x projects and events over to internal harddrive and use proxy mode. Is this the right thing to do to speed up performance?
Thanks.

Paul Cuciti wrote:
The short answer is yes. But if you have a FAST external hard drive, you may prefer that.
The short answer is NO - unless the internal drive is different to your system drive and RAID?
A fast external HD is the way to go. Your projects, media and events should all go on the expernal drive (formatted Mac OS Extended) and of course, Firewire 800.
Andy

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At new, At first, At end of, At last are called Control break events of internal table
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wt are events of internal tables?
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Hi kishore kumar,
Yep that's True that Internal tables are not having any events...
and can be accessed in program by read or loop at statements...
I think you wanted to know abt the controle break statements which can be used in internal tables...
The Control-Break Stmts are...
1. AT NEW.
2. AT FIRST.
3. AT LAST.
4. AT END OF.
5 ON CHANGE OF.
See below example for the use of it...
REPORT ILE_ZCTRL_BRK_STMT.
TYPES: BEGIN OF G_I_DATA,
PROFIT(4) TYPE C,
COMPANY(4) TYPE C,
ACCOUNT(10) TYPE C,
AMOUNT TYPE P,
END OF G_I_DATA.
DATA: G_IT_DATA TYPE TABLE OF G_I_DATA,
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Other than the size, I see no difference between the two drives. Just have the Recovery DVD set available and install the new drive, run the Recovery Set and away you go. If the old drive is truely toast, there is nothing else to do but to run the Microsoft updates.
Or install Windows 7, retail version of your choice.
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