What drive to choose, MacBook Pro Retina 15"

Hi,
I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro (15" 2,7 GHz quad-core, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M / 1GB).
But could you give me advice on the following.
Since this MacBook has flashmemory, I wonder if it's still necessary to work with a external harddrive for your source media.
If an external harddrive is not necessary with the flashmemory drive, I think I'm going for the 512 GB storage. If on the other hand you do recommend an external drive for your source media, than I might be going for the 256 GB version.
Thank you for your advice!

Thunderbolt is faster and also way more expenive, with not a lot of support. Conversely, USB 3.0 is fast and universally accepted. Graphic card is insufficient and hopefully you will at least get the max 16GB of RAM.

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