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Desktop Computer Hardware Guide |
| Desktop computer hardware is not so different from the laptop computer
hardware,
but it comes closer to the usual definition of computer
hardware in general: "Something you can touch". It is indeed
easy
to touch and hold at least a part of the computer
hardware
components that constitute desktop computer hardware. Computer hardware
monitors,
as well as keyboards, mouses etc, are easy to separate from the rest of
the desktop computer hardware which, in turn, makes them convenient to
replace. However, the most important elements of desktop computer
hardware still hide beneath the surface of the system units. Some are
more secretly hidden than the others: for example, the floppy drive and
the CD/DVD drive are something you can see quite clearly which is, of
course, necessarily for using them. But, say, the desktop computer
hardware called "the hard drive" is hidden pretty well - an average
user will hardly know where to look (though, of course, removable hard
drives also exist and even rank quite high among the popular computer hardware
accessories). The hard drive is still "something you can
touch",
but it is also something you may not - it is stored within its own
holder well inside the system unit and must remain that way for your
computer to function properly. You see, when you speak of the
information stored "in your computer", you mean the information stored
on your hard drive, since there are no more elements of desktop
computer hardware that are capable of this. Well, of course, there is
always RAM - Random Access Memory - but it can only take care of
information for the lengths of a single computer session. As soon as
you turn your PC off, every byte of data within RAM immediately gets
erased and only the files stored on the hard drive remain available.
This is why the hard drive is, perhaps, the most important element of
your desktop computer hardware. Treat it with care.
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