In the MBP 15" should i get the 750GB, 5400rpm or the 500GB, 7200 rpm?

i have opted for the 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, because i really needas much speed as possible and power, and i will be installing 8gb ram when i buy it. I will be ruinning programes such as logic pro, so when using many different plug-ins and running programmes such as pro tools or reason at the same time, i feel i am gonna need speed as well as the power of the quad core...so i wondered whether it is worth getting the 500GB HDD with 7200rpm, instead of the 750GB HDD, 5400 rpm. The space i dont mind about because i dont intend to store much on the mbp itself, i will be buying a usb powered external HDD...so what should i chose...thanks Ben

SSD 256GB would be the fastest, but you can do 3X faster with a third party product, a OCZ-Vertex3
A 7,200 RPM 500GB would be ideal balance of performance and storage as a single drive, it's completely erasable.
You can get a kit to replace the Superdrive with a 7,200 500GB drive though.
SSD has limited writes, is NOT 100% erasable, despite what software says. So it makes a good boot/program drive, let the second hard drive take the brunt of the wear and tear. But  alas,no Superdrive, but the kit provides a external enclosure.
voiding warranties most likely.

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