Computer Hardware
Second year ICT
Hard Drives
In very computer there is a mechanism called hard drive to store the computer’s information and data. It stores the operating system, files and software. It can be abbreviated to the letters HDD or HD, standing for either hard drive disk, or simply hard drive on its own. The data gets magnetically stored on specially coated disks inside the hard drive called platters. Hard drives are most commonly found it computers.
SSD
Monitors
Computers have a visual display called a monitor. This is the screen in which documents, web pages and whatever else the user of the computer is looking at. However, the monitor only displays the information, but the actual computer does the work, to let it be displayed.
This is a hard drive.
Information from the computer is stored onto disks in the hard drive called platters.
This is an SSD.
This particular image is an solid state drive from a Samsung product.
This is a monitor.
This is an image of a modern LG monitor, used for displaying the compuer's information.
Optical Drives
An optical drive is the tray in computers or laptops in which CDs or DVDs may be inserted in order to be played. It uses a laser in order to read the disk’s information. Also, the laser is able to burn information, such as videos or photos, on to disks.