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SSD prices have been falling steadily. Amazing.
Yup and I would never build another PC without one. They are super fast as boot drives.
Who builds machines anymore...welcome to 1995. Fail.
Lots of people build machines, particularly if they want a few significant upgrades but don't want to pay for a high end box from an OEM just to get them, like an SSD or more memory, or higher capacity PSU to support a decent gaming video card, or if they want to overclock, or want a case with more HDD bays for retirement to fileserver duty later (and RAID support higher than 0/1), among other reasons.
Now far more than in 1995, DIY provides more flexibility in what you end up with.
not much reviews and horrible rebate to price ratio
DIY system building was always a PITA. "I lost my BIOS setting again" was the most often complaint. This especially sucks when you have drives in a motherboard based RAID configuration.
After years of overclocking I learned that lesson. All settings of significance that I change from defaults are printed out and taped to the inside of the case side panel.
Raid isn't much of an issue to me except that if a drive needs swapped I want a quick ID of it without trying to remember or shining a flashlight around or pulling any out so I write the drive make, capacity, and array member status on a sticker I put on the side of the drive. I'd do this regardless of DIY build or ready built system if there's more than one drive and/or a raid array, unless there were only two and through process of elimination I can see one manufacturer's label so I know what the other drive is too.
However, once a system was set up and IF overclocked, then proven stable, I only recall losing bios settings when the battery runs down several years later. Mostly my issues were the first day or two of dialing in the best overclock settings and needing to clear CMOS if I went too far. Since an OEM box usually can't even be o'c much if at all, it's not as though someone is forced to o'c a DIY build so it's a choice of what effort you want to put forth to see how fast she'll go on the cheap.
I should mention that a few factors make DIY builds more or less expensive as time goes by. If you cheap out on the PSU it may not last through a system upgrade. If you buy decent case you may be able to (want to) reuse it. If you bought a full windows license in the past you could reuse that, though today OEMs definitely have a cost advantage when it comes to OS system license cost.