Wow, I go away for a few days and all this happens!
Harmy, I think you should allow donations until at least the end of the month and see what you get, it could be substantially more than you budgeted for and allow for even better components than previously discussed. A point on SSDs though, as I understand it, previous fears about writing life of them were greatly exaggerated and with modern SSDs it's barely even a factor at all.
I do hope that you will use anything left over to enjoy a night out as well - if anyone here deserves it, you do!
I desperately want to contribute as this has been a project I have followed for a very long time and having burned several copies of the trilogy as it is right now for my friends and family I know just how much they treasure them like I do - it's a wonderful project and I will forever be in debt to you. What I can offer won't be much but once pay day comes (the end of the month) I'll be sure to send it on to you.
It's lovely to see the community help when required :)