Recording audio onto solid state drive

Hi, I am interested in producing audio using macbook pro with solid state drive. With traditional HD, I had to record audio onto a separate hd. Would I be able to record audio onto the same partition of the system, by using a solid state drive? Thanks

Thanks for your reply Shoot,
It is not because it's full. Recording onto a separate hd has been a must in this field. Not sure exactly how it works but I believe it has something to do with the heads that physically have to write many tracks at the same time and reading system stuff. Everyone I know has been doing that with hard drives. If you do it on the same disc you will likely get lot of errors in writing and they sound like some clips or glitches on the recording. My question comes from the fact that SSD doesn't have to move any mechanical part around the disc as they have direct access to the memory (I believe?). Also with HD it was important that the writing had to be contiguous and perhaps that's not an issue anymore with ssd? Do anyone have experience with all this?
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