Is SSD worth it for the OS alone

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The way I organise my drives has the C: drive solely for the OS itself, all applications, games and data are stored on other drives. My C: drive hovers around the 40-50GB mark.

I'm wondering whether it's worth getting a 60GB SSD to replace the C: drive alone. Sure, it'll boot faster but, once the OS has fully loaded, will I see any appreciable gains? Surely at this point I'm primarily transferring data to the other drives as I load apps and games and work with data?

I have far too many apps and games installed (Steam folder is over half a terrabyte alone) to get an SSD large enough to put these on too, I just don't want to waste money on a small one for the OS if all it will do is speed the initial boot.
 
Yes. Move your basic apps (Office, media players etc) onto the C drive, but leave big programs such as games on the separate HDD. You wil notice a huge increase in responsiveness, loading times and boot time. The whole systems just seems snappier with an SSD IMO. I have a 60GB Vertex 2 with Win7 x64 ultimate and all my apps (games on E) on the SSD and it's only half full. No point installing games onto an SSD; the only way they'd benefit is from faster map loading etc, but no real FPS gain.
 
Yes
SSD for OS and applications. (the speed is worth it no question)
games of hdd (the only difference is loading times) and if you want to load a game faster you can just use mklink to move a game to your ssd.
if you delete the hibernation file, turn off system restore, remove unwanted windows programmes and delete service pack files etc... you will clean up between 10-15gb of space if you havent done already
with my intel ssd for w7 alone with the unneeded stuff removed it only takes approx 20gb and with all apps and drivers im only using between 25gb so you will definatly be alright with a 60gb ssd
 
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