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Yes. As I understand you want to ensure correctness of your data by storing a hash but are worried about SHA2's worse performance vs. MD5's worse security. My answer is that 1) MD5 is probably secure enough 2) you could instead use Skein or BLAKE. I did not care about the possibility of an attacker simply changing the stored hash which did not seem to be your concern.
