Capturing to internal mac pro's HD?

hello, i used to edit on my macbook pro and capture to an external fw drive....but tomorrow I'll be picking up a mac pro and was curious if I can use the stock internal drive for running the OS and capturing or if its the same with my laptop......for some reason I think it's different (better).

Capturing to the system drive is never recommended...laptop or tower, doesn't matter. It is because the operating system periodically searches the hard drive for system resources, thus pausing capture for a moment and dropping frames.
Get a secondard internal. 500GB drives can be had for under $200.
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