I was watching some training for FCP on Lynda.com and the trainer made it clear that he did not want us to use the boot disk as a scratch disk (not even a partition). One reason is that the bandwidth from a single drive is not enough, causing it to run slower, but he also mentions that it will almost always cause dropped frames (not just while editing-it will also so in output). If that is so then why are so many pros on Apple's site saying that they finally have the power to edit movies (FCP I would assume) on the go. I'm sure pros wouldn't want dropped frames in their movies.