Hey all, i finally took the plunge today and ordered a 250GB Samsung evo 850 SSD. I was planning to utilize the SSD as my C: drive (OS primarily) and install my games to a seperate HDD. I know the SSD will speed up my boot and OS but was wondering if i'd see any performance improvement in games as my games are all installed to a separate HDD. i'm just uneasy about installing games to it as games eat up a ton of space and i've also heard they don't like to be written to and deleted from over and over as i tend to do with my games install drive.
Anyone have any experience with this kind of setup?

You actually wont see any improvement from the in game load times if you do it that way, however you also shouldnt see any dip in performance from where you were

i also have the 250 GB and have been putting games on it and i highly recommend making the space, especially for open world games

@oldmanlight: You won't see any speed boost in games unless the game is actually on the SSD. The SSD is still worth it, and you'll probably have enough room to install a game or two here and there. Don't worry about the limited number of writes.

As a consumer, you really don't need to worry about SSD performance degradation due to writing to it too many times. It would take thousands and thousands of terabytes of write cycles to reduce performance by even a percentage point or two, nothing you would even notice outside of synthetic benchmarks. Just use your SSD and enjoy it.

Oh, that's good news. it would be nice to keep whatever game i'm spending the most time on on the SSD for faster load times. Thanks for the input all!

@oldmanlight: I have an SSD for my OS and a slower RPM HDD for my media and games, and I use SteamTool to move the handful of games I want to play between the drives. It creates an NTFS junction so that Steam and Windows both see the moved game as if it was still within the Steam folder, so updates and playability aren't affected by moving it.

http://www.stefanjones.ca/steam/

As for games on an SSD, I've noticed slightly shorter load times, and in games with a lot of pop-in the SSD seems help a bit too. Keep in mind this is pretty minor to the point where I wouldn't have even noticed it if I hadn't installed the game on a regular HDD first before switching over.

Personally I'd just use the SSD as a boot drive with your OS and for all of you apps and then just use a regular HDD for games and storage.

When you're worried about SSD vs HDD degradation from storing games, just remember that the HDD involves actual mechanical movements to read and write.

The tip about performance I'd give is if a game you play often has pop-in and/or loads/streams a lot of content throughout playing, put it on SSD to improve the performance. If it's a game that loads almost all of ton of content at once, and you have other stuff that might better benefit from the SSD, put that on HDD.