• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  new MBP: 5400 vs 7200 system drive?

  Posted by David Kaplowitz on August 3, 2011 at 9:27 pm

  hi there – i’m gonna buy a new MBP and surveying opinion on whether to go for the smaller 7200rpm drive option or larger 5400rpm drive, as i don’t have a great sense of how much it affects overall performance.

  will be using it with FCP 7.0.3, an external eSata drive, eventually a thunderbolt drive, with primarily ProRes 422 1920×1080 and XDcam footage.

  any advice will be appreciated!
  cheers

  Jeff Greenberg replied 14 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  August 3, 2011 at 10:42 pm

  If you’ll edit off the OS drive ever at all, 7200rpm would be preferred.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Grant Gomm

  August 3, 2011 at 11:13 pm

  If it’s a new MBP, won’t it have Lion on it? If so does FCP 7 run on Lion?

  -Grant Gomm
  http://www.blacklionproductions.com
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  David Kaplowitz

  August 3, 2011 at 11:46 pm

  re: lion / fcp 7 – there seems to be some debate on that. couldn’t i downgrade it to 10.6.8 or have they made the new machines incompatibile with snow leopard?!
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  Jeff Greenberg

  August 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm

  7200 RPM if you think you’re going to edit.

  FCP7 works on Lion.

  Best,

  Jeff G

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