I don't get why games would download faster onto an SSD? I have a 50MBit connection and it's nowhere near fast enough to keep my HDD busy.

The folder linking and stuff is interesting but two things:

1. it sounds like an SSD is a lot more maintenance intensive and requires loads of planning

2. if you outsource too many files, there's no point in having an SSD, right? For example the page file would greatly benefit from being on the SSD I guess, since it's closer to the speed of actual RAM, yet it would reduce the lifetime a lot, kinda hard to decide there.