Computer Hardware
By Adnan Benachar
What is Computer Hardware?
Basic Computer Hardware
HDD and SSD?
HDD stands for Hard disk drive, SSD stands for Solid-Sate Drive. The main difference is that SSD is alot faster BUT because of this SSDs are much more expensive and have low capacities.A Hard Drive or Hard Disk Drive may take a few seconds to start running but an SSD is always ready and will start immediantly.
Optical Drives. (ODD)
An optical disk drive or "ODD" is a disk drive that uses either laser light or electromagnetic waves to reading or writing to and from optical discs.
Monitor
A computer monitor displays information generated from the proccessor or graphics card in a way that we can see it with our eyes.
Input/Output Devices
An input device is anything that puts information into a computer.An example is a mouse when you move it around and click buttons it is telling the computer what to do,HoweverAn output device is anything that can display or send information from a computer.For example speakers are an output device as it is sending sound waves that has been aquired from the computer.
Touch Screens
A touch screen is a screen that displays data but also allows the user to interact with the device by touching certain areas of the screen.