Published Apr 26, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. I'm not going to say you're not a true PC enthusiast if you don't have a few old SATA drives kicking around in drawers and old rigs, but it's incredibly common. It could be an old 500GB HDD pulled from a laptop SSD upgrade , or your first 256GB SATA SSD that got kicked to the curb when you upgraded to an NVMe drive .…