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[[cloud_club|About the Club]]

==== Cloud Club Topics - Hardware ====

==== Types of computers ====
  - Workstations
    - Desktop/tower
    - Single board comuters ( SBCs )
    - Mini
    - Laptop
  - Servers
    - Tower
    - Rackmount
    - Mainframes

==== Questions ====
  - What **really** makes a computer a server?
  - Can you build/run a server at home?
  - Does it cost a lot to run a server at home?

==== Internal components of a computer ====
  - Power supply
  - Motherboard
  - Hard drive / Solid State Disk ( SSD )
    - RAID
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_0|RAID-0]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_1|RAID-1]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10|RAID-10]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_2|RAID-2]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_3|RAID-3]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_4|RAID-4]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5|RAID-5]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_6|RAID-6]]
      - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels|Non-standard RAID levels]]
    - [[https://www.raidz-calculator.com/raidz-types-reference.aspx|ZFS]]
      - RAID-Z0
      - RAID-Z1
      - RAID-Z2
      - RAID-Z3
      - RAID-Z10
  - Netowrk Interface Card ( NIC )
  - Central Processing Unit ( CPU )
  - Random Access Memory ( RAM )
  - CD drive ( Obsolete?? ), not quite yet!!
  - Add-on cards
    - Extend capability
    - HBA external disk array ( NAS / SAN )
  - Additional NIC cards
    - Fiber Channel ( FC )
      - Faster network speed

==== External Ports ====
  - USB ports
    - Type A
    - Type C
  - HDMI port
  - Video Graphics Array ( VGA )
  - Audio ( microphone / headphones / speakers )