would boot times be better if the OS is on its own SSD, as opposed to a shared one?

[Renaulter]

I'm looking into a new PC. I've chosen 2 SSDs: One for the operating system solely (128) and one just for games (500gb) but now i'm looking to cut prices wherever possible, with minimal performance impact. If i simply moved my OS onto the 500gb and removed the 128gb, aside from having slightly less space for games (i'd only place a select few on there anywho) would there be any worthwhile boot speed differences? As in greater than 3-5 seconds? How about load times for the games? Or did i just pull this belief out of my arse?

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

It shouldn't make any noticeable difference. Loading the OS speeds up mainly from the improved seek/latency times of an SSD, not so much the throughput. Games mostly benefit from the throughput, loading large textures and so forth. And in any event, even OS + Games isn't going to max out either. If the drive fills up it can impact speed, but other than that you should be fine.