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Desktops and Asus Zenphones

I put together my desktop three years and two months ago. It's an ASUS Z97 mobo paired with a 4th generation i5-4590 cpu. I am glad to go for a 16 GB RAM because I'm still smiling at how fast this machine is now after using it everyday all this time. Yes I've purchased hard disks and replaced old ones but I'm still using the original solid-state drive. It's a Crucial 240 GB SSD. The whole package cost 37,000 in 2014.

I am still using my ASUS Zenphone ZE551ML. I got this smartphone in 2014. It has intel atom quad cores and a 4 GB RAM. It has android.

I had to replace my monitor last year. I am now using an AOC 22 inch IPS monitor with a Full HD resolution.

I stopped using RAID and gained back storage space. I am enjoying a total of 10 TB in pooled storage after using logical volume management to put together 5 disks. 2 of the 5 are 3 TB disks and the rest are 2 TB disks. The mix is dictated by cost. The cost effective disk is still the 3 TB capacity.

I am trying to get a high speed internet connection in our area. and waiting...

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