is made of microchips, and determines if 1 or 0 is inputted
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optical drives
A laser light creates marks in a pattern on the disk. Then A laser light detects where the marks are and translates this into a readable format
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Hard disk drive
(HDD) Read/write move across the medium and change how magnetised that part of the medium is. one level of magnetism will be a 1, a second will be a 0
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Tape drive
Is magnetic
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HDD's
are most likely to break if you drop them, compared to an SSD.
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ROM
Read only memory
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CD-ROM
Compact disk Read-only memory
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RAM
Random access memory
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CPU
(central processing unit) is the brains of the computer
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GPU
(graphics processing unit) outputs the display to the monitor, and provides a lot of power for gaming, as it takes advantage of high clock speeds, VRAM(video random acess memory) and CUDA cores
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Cache
Very fast memory in a processor. It holds common instructions
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A laser light creates marks in a pattern on the disk. Then A laser light detects where the marks are and translates this into a readable format
Back
optical drives
Card 3
Front
(HDD) Read/write move across the medium and change how magnetised that part of the medium is. one level of magnetism will be a 1, a second will be a 0
Back
Card 4
Front
Is magnetic
Back
Card 5
Front
are most likely to break if you drop them, compared to an SSD.
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