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An SSD won't make games run any faster (although they would certainly load faster) so you could always keep your OS and programs other than games on a smaller SSD and put the games on the HDD. In the future, if your rich uncle dies, leaving you his fortune (or some other windfall comes your way), you can always get a second SSD to put your games on or to replace the smaller SSD.
My desktop uses up almost 65GB on my 128GB SSD (119GB formatted size) just for the OS and programs and not I'm not even a gamer (24GB is taken up by the hyberfil.sys file because I have 32GB RAM; I need to keep Hibernate enabled for my UPS so I can't get rid of the file). Even my notebooks OSes are at about 44-45GB however, since they can have one only one drive, I put a 500GB SSD in one and will be putting a 500Gb SSD in the other one soon (I already have it).
With regards to games on an dedicated SSD, I finally got a chance to do that myself a few months back.. Can honestly say, after the update, the only real improvement I found was load times. As someone who's mind-numbingly pedantic about where an app or game or util gets installed to (I even update my own environment variables manually most times), it's workable. But if you're someone who launches an installer and just clicks "next" through every page, then you'll get frustrated by the smaller OS drive.
With regards to storage size though, it seems (probably thanks to the higher density) that the higher cappacity drives have better overall write speeds, but read-speeds seem to be much the same across each specific manufacturer's range or drives.
Still, loading 6GB of a uncompressed alpha-game resources (Carmageddon Reincarnation) into memory in under 30 seconds is still pretty cool.
BlackFriday will be fun
I doubt I'll wait though and I'm looking at pre-BFriday deals instead closely
Best deals so far are crucial 128 mx100 for about 70.us.
Crucial 256 mx100 @ 109.
whs got the last deal at 89. I was too late