SSHD 5900rpm vs SHD 7200rpm

Hello
I'm thinking in achieving a OWC Thunderbay IV, and the reseller has a juicy offer that include 4 seagate SSHD hibrid drives.  Taking a closer look, I noticed that this drives only spin at 5900rpm instead of 7200rpm that I've been used to.  I am working editting HD video and need both: fast drives and large amount of storage (big projects, different clients...).  Velocity is the reason because I'm looking for a thunderbolt external storage.
Does anybody know if this difference between 5900 and 7200rpm is going to be a problem working with HD video?...I've read that this hibrid drives are quite fast, but haven't find yet a understandable comparation (for me at least)
Thank you very much

Files that are accessed from the SSD segment of the drive will load significantly faster, from the HDD they maybe slightly slower, or slightly faster. The density of the drives differs and there may be no significant speed difference between them because of that.
Regularly used files will almost always be on the SSD.

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