Automaticman
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Also, I love the Samsung 840 pro, I have one. However, with modern games getting bigger and bigger, 256GB isn't that much space. You do not want to keep your games on a seperate data drive (especially a mechanical drive even the raptor), they will load slower. The best performance comes from having them on your boot SSD or a high performance add in drive (I use a RevoX2 PCI card 256GB for games storage). Your machine sounds like it is designed to last a few years. 256GB boot drive seems a bit small.
I've personally found that using an SSD for games has a much less noticeable impact than it does when using them for the OS. I've compromised by using a Samsung 830 120GB for my OS and apps (minus games) and then a mechanical drive for games paired with a 60GB vertex 2 using Intel SRT caching. I already had the Vertex laying around and it's plenty big to cache whatever 1 or 2 games I might be playing at any given time.