and just for the record: The desktop rig sitting on this desk-let, just beside my right elbow IS: A generic PC-AT medium tower case, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L (rev. 1.0) LG775 motherboard, Intel Core Duo Quadcore Q9550 CPU, 8 GB DDR2 PC-800 RAM, BFG 8800GTX OC 768 in PCIe 1.2 slot @ 16x. 6 SATA ports, 12 USB2 ports and pretty much all in use. Original incep date for "George" is July 2008. Just a couple of months before Hurricane IKE blew through Houston. I am pleased with the longevity of this build. I have seen many mice, keyboards, Hard Drives and Power Supply Units go through this machine. But the "Basic 3" are the originals. Mobo, CPU, RAM. Three video cards have been used, I keep cleaning and reusing them. ALL spinner HD's have been replaced with SATA SSD drives. The BluRay rewriter drive is SATA also. I also use a USB SATA drive dock and keep a SSD drive in it most of the time.
Keep on KEEPING ON! I have bought, used and replaced SO MANY spinner Hard Drives through my years of computering. I grew sick of throwing money into a thing that lasts about as long as wet cell car batteries. The general life expectancy of both tend to be 2 years. My first SSD is now 5 years old and at 98% Life. This gives me a smile.

My 66th Birthday PC Build (July 1, 2020) :  named BadMoonRYZEN!, W10Pro x64, Octal Core RYZEN7 X3700 4.05 GHz, 64GB DDR4 RAM, GeForce RTX 3060 - 12GB GDDR6, PP2014, PP 11, P12, PS-CS4 Extended & Vue 2024.

McG.