[Andrew Richards] "That should still be quicker than a Pegasus for small I/O since it has more spindles. Did you say you do not see these issues when working off a Pegasus?"
I haven't done any large projects with the Pegasus. Only some casual testing on a friend's iMac. I didn't see any issues there, but we were testing Thunderbolt video i/o devices more than FCP X per se.
As far as this project, I moved the Events/Projects to the internal hard drive (media still on the SAN) and I haven't had any of the beach-balling today. This would seem to indicate that Events/Projects should not live on the SAN. Might get to do some more checking next week.
That poses a render concern, although the single internal seems to playback ProResHQ render files just fine. I'm going to see if this owner is interested in putting a couple of SSDs into drive bays 3 & 4 of the Mac Pro. Software RAID then as RAID-0 and only use them for FCP X Events and Projects.
- Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com 
