Is there any performance advantage to keeping projects and events on the same disk or on separate disks. Thank you for any insight.
Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
There appears to be no degradation in performance in keeping projects and events on the same drive. If they are on an external drive it should be a 7200 rpm drive with a firewire, thunderbolt or USB 3 interface. Performance degrades when you keep projects and events on the boot drive.
Just an FYI for FCPX 10.1
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5683827?answerId=24190803022#24190803022
There is no advantage to sparating Events and Projects on different drives. Total myth.
Way back in FCP 7 and previous versions, Larry Jordan explained media mangement with a two drive example. There was no technical reason for this, except Larry thought it was more clear for newbies to understand the concepts. I have discussed this in the past with him more than once.
Unfortunately, many newbies walked away thinking you HAD to put your project file on one drive, and the media on another. That was NOT what Larry thought he was explaining. But the myth continues today, and is completely wrong.
Keep Libraries (or Events & Projects) on a media drive, that is not the system drive, that is the ONLY advantageous set up.
Is there an advantage to either having projects and events on the same disk, or on separate disks?
