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Quick hard drive question

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I'm buying a laptop soon and I'm wondering weather it is worth it to get a Seagate 5400 rpm 500 gb with 64 mgb cache SSHD or put in 20-30 dollars more for a Toshiba SSHD that has 8 gb of cache instead of a measly 64 megs. Thoughts? If your wondering, I want an sshd so I can have the size of a hard drive but also have fast boot times and quick program load times without having to pay for the equivalent sized SSD.

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Are you going to be frequently using programs with more than 64 mb of space? If not then the 8gb wont matter to you. I would just go with which ever is cheaper, you won't be able to tell the difference between the two unless you are launching large files frequently.

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