Monday 10 October 2011

hardware

Hardware


Processor
Well in the simplest of terms, it’s your computers brain. The processor tells your computer what to do and when to do it, it decides which tasks are more important and prioritizes them to your computers needs.
There is and has been many processors on the market, running at many different speeds. The speed is measured in Megahertz
Memory - Ram
Is a form of computer data storage it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order with a worst case performance of constant time.


Memory-Rom


Rom is a read only memory is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices


Storage device


usb


A memory stick is a usb pen which can store music, work or any programmes or films.
H drive
In the southern regional college we have a h drive to store all our work on that we do in class.

DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format
DVD originally stood for Digital Versatile Disk, or Digital Video Disk.
The acronym was dropped after DVD proved to have more uses than just storing video content. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact Discs while having the same dimensions.


 Flash drive

A usb flash drive is a data storage device that consists of flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk.







 

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