Do most people wish they bought 512 gb flash for Macbook pro 15" RD

Im buying the MB pro 15" with RD. Although i'm upgrading the RAM to 16GB which seems sensible, but the extra price for upgrading to 512gb of flash seems extortion. Not sure therefore if people regret buying with 256. I know that programmes are memory hungry and in addition to normal browsing, emailing, documentation, will be using Logic Pro; Final Cut Pro; + in due course Aperture.
I may need to load on parallels or VM ware to run windows would that swing it in favour of the 512gb flash upgrade?
Alternatively if i keep the hard drive as clean as possible (just use OS and the programmes above) and try and keep everything else on large flash drives eg my films, music etc can i avoid the flash upgrade?
Grateful for any advice
Paul

Grant - wow - faster than a speeding bullet! Thats really helpful. I thought they took up way more memory than that...here's a gold star
Any idea how much windows running in VM takes up in memory? I know its a bloated programme but i cant get consistent answers.
I guess like work exponentially fills the time allotted so too does media! I guess if i force myself to save everything to an external HD then that is an aspirationally good behaviour. Otherwise i'll be tempted to save my whole DVD library to it etc and then cry because it will run like a chromebook.
I guess by the time i start to fill 256 gb with other software etc - 1TB flash drives would probably be the same price as the original memory upgrade.

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