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What is Hardware?

Hardware is best described as a device that is physically connected to your computer or something that can be physically touched. 2

Internal hardware examples Blu-Ray, CD-ROM, and DVD CPU Hard drive Motherboard RAM Sound card Video card External hardware examples

Flat-panel, Monitor, and LCD Keyboard Mouse Printer Scanner What is Scanner?

An scanner is a hardware input device that allows a user to take an image or text and convert it into a digital file. Hard Drive

A hard disk drive and abbreviated as HD or HDD, the hard drive is the computer's main storage media device that permanently stores all data on the computer. External and Internal hard drives

Although most hard drives are internal hard drives, many users also use external hard drives to backup data on their computer and expand the total amount of space available to them. External drives are often stored in an enclosure that helps protect the drive and allow it to interface with the computer, usually over USB

HDD being replaced by SSD Solid State Drives (SSDs) are starting to replace hard disk drives (HDDs) in many computers because of the clear advantages these drives have over HDD. Difference between SSD and HDD.

SSD A SSD has access speeds of 35 to 100 microseconds, which is nearly 100 times faster. This faster access speed means programs can Access run more quickly, which is very significant, time especially for programs that access large amounts of data often like your operating system. The price of a solid state drive is much more than a HDD which is why most computers with a SSD only have a few hundred Price gigabytes of storage. Desktop computers with SSD will often also have one or more HDDs for additional storage. The SSD drive has no moving parts. It uses flash memory to store data, which provides Reliability better performance and reliability over a HDD. Although there are large SSDs realistically for Capacity most people's budgets anything over 512GB SSD is beyond their price range. The SSD uses less power than a standard HDD, which means a lower energy bill over Power time and for laptops an increase of battery life.

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HDD

A typical HDD takes about 5,000 to 10,000 micro-seconds to access data.

HDD is much cheaper than SSD, especially for drives over 500GB.

The HDD has moving parts and magnetic platters, meaning the more use they get, the faster they wear down and fail. Several terabyte hard disk drives are available for very reasonable prices. With all the parts and requirements to spin the platters the HDD uses more power than a SSD.

With the spinning platters and With no moving parts SSD generates no moving read/write heads a HDD can Noise noise. sometimes be one of the loudest components in your computer. HDDs are usually 3.5" and 2.5" in SSD is available in 2.5", 1.8", and 1.0", size, for desktop and laptops Size increasing the available space available in a respectively with no options for computer, especially a desktop or server. anything smaller. With moving parts comes added heat, Because there are no moving parts and due to which is why the HDD generates the nature of flash memory, the SSD more heat. Heat can slowly damage Heat generates less heat, helping to increase its electronics over time, so the higher lifespan and reliability. the heat, the greater the potential of damage being done. Because a hard drive relies off magnetism to write information to Magnetism SSD is not affected by magnetism. the platter it is possible for information to be erased from a HDD using strong magnets.

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What is USB stands for? Short for Universal Serial Bus Example of USB device options Keyboard Mouse Microphone External drive Printer Joystick Scanner Webcams Printer An external hardware device responsible for taking computer data and generating a hard copy of that data. Types of printers All-in-one (AIO) printer Dot Matrix printer Inkjet printer Laser printer Thermal printer Difference between CD DVD Drives CD ROM DVD ROM CD R CD-RW DVD-R DVD-RW Combo Drive Super Drive Only reads CD Only reads DVD CD Writer once CD writer and able to re write CD DVD Writer once DVD writer and able to re write DVD Drives that can burn CDs and read DVDs Drives that can read and write to both CDs and DVDs.

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Difference between RAM and VRAM RAM Random Access Memory is the primary memory used by computers and is located in memory slots on the motherboard. VRAM is short for "Video RAM" and is used to store graphics data. VRAM is typically located on the computer's video card. What is MAC address and can I change my computer's MAC address?

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The MAC address is a unique identifier given to each network card (NIC). Since this address is physically printed or "burned in" the card, it cannot be changed. Example "00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e" What is the difference between an integrated and a non-integrated system board?

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An integrated system board has multiple components integrated into the board itself. These may include the CPU, video card, sound card, and various controller cards. Laptops and Branded Computers

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A non-integrated system board uses installable components and expansion cards. For example, a non-integrated system board may allow you to upgrade the video card by removing the old one and installing a new one. Non-integrated motherboards typically have several PCI expansion slots as well. Non branded Desktop PC

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What is the difference between an AGP and a PCI graphics card? Both have different slots. The biggest difference between AGP and PCI graphics cards is that AGP cards can access the system memory to help with complex operations such as texture mapping. PCI cards can only access the memory available on the actual card. Will a USB 1.0 or 1.1 device work with my computer that only has USB 2.0 ports? The device (digital camera, card reader, scanner, hard drive, cable modem, etc.) will work with the USB 2.0 ports even if the device only has a USB 1.0 or 1.1 connection. The physical connectors are exactly the same for USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. However, the device will only work at USB 1.1 speeds (12 Mbps) and not USB 2.0 speeds (480 Mbps). Why do videos run slowly on my computer? VGA Card driver issue High resolution vides while VGA having low VRAM supports low resolution vides. What is the difference between the AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium processors? Intel and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) are the two major manufacturers of processors for PCs. Intel makes the Pentium and Celeron processors; AMD makes the K6 and Athlon processors. Give examples of network devices. Switch, hubs, routers, bridges Give examples of input device.

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Mouse, keyboard, webcam, digital camera, drawing tablet, scanner, microphone, joystick, touch screen, barcode scanner.