I agree, although that £13.50 Intel Xeon X5675 runs snappy at 3ghz - I am even more amazed it works at all how it was packaged! I would not go near a mechanical hard drive for boot now, and I think we are seeing a slow phase out as SSD becomes better value. Of course they are now getting replaced with NVME which offers blazing speeds - and as modern motherboards keep supporting multiple NVME drives the days of fiddling with SATA data and power cables are numbered too - I won't miss that!
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The X5675 is my favorite CPU from that generation. It was the fastest/had the most cores you could get without going to a hotter/more power hungry model. I still have a dual cpu machine here that has two of them installed.
I don't mind SATA cables too much. They were such a big improvement on IDE :). I think it will be quite a while before SATA goes away though. Solid state drives still aren't really all that economical for storing/backing up large amounts of data (though I suppose this type of thing could go all external...USB or whatever). Just backing up all your videos and photos from your cell phone can take up gobs of space.