I wrote previously about my PC which has changed one piece at a time over the years, but now I'm going to write about it again because it changed a bunch. I refer to it The Potato of Theseus for reasons discussed in the prior article which are fairly obvious if you're familiar with the concept.
At this point, everything but some of the storage devices is a relatively recent purchase, and the main storage is all brand new.
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 ($69.99 new)
Motherboard: ASRock B550M PG Riptide ($89.99 new)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X ($112.39 new)
RAM: 2 packs Crucial 32GB DDR4 3200 CP16G4DFRA32A.C8FF bought at slightly different times ($47.49 and $56.99 new)
GPU: GeForce RTX 4060 Ti WINDFORCE OC 16G ($449.99 new)
Power Supply: EVGA 600W Gold (~$60 new)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Frozen Notte 240mm ($51.21 new)
- Boot/Root: Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770 1TB ($64.99 new) mirrored to TEAMGROUP MS30 1TB ($45.99 new)
- "Big" Storage: Seagate Backup+ Hub 8TB, a disk which came from one of those where the USB interface died which I put into a Vantec NexStar 6G enclosure ($19.99 new) and a HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE604 ($68.99 used)
- Misc disks just floating around in there for now: INTEL SSDSC2BW240A4, Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
Storage is now of course much faster. ZFS is smart enough both to write to and read from any ready device, so the slower SSD doesn't slow down the faster one, and the three mirrored 8TB disks all make the mirror faster.
I am currently running Devuan 5 with kernel 6.11.5, and the XFCE4 desktop.