Will a 256 gig SSD be enough for caches or should i go for 500?

I'm getting a laptop for AE which will come with a terabyte HDD. Im going to put the OS and AE on an SSD. Do you think 256 gigs will be enough or should i go for 500? How much space would be enough for caching? I dont want to get a 500GB SSD and then realize it was overkill. thanks

Yes, you're right about the boot and application start.  
And that's just the point for putting user files on the SSD.  SSD's are far faster at reading & writing than a hard drive... with no physical wear & tear.  And when you're reading a hundred layers of HD footage and a hundred more layers of Photoshop & Illustrator documents -- for each and every frame of your AE composition -- you stand to boost the machine's performance significantly with shorter read times multiplied by 200... to say nothing of the absence of physical wear & tear.
You might also consider putting media files on an external hard drive.

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