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About the Club

Cloud Club Topics - Hardware

Types of computers

  1. Workstations
    1. Desktop/tower
    2. Single board comuters ( SBCs )
    3. Mini
    4. Laptop
  2. Servers
    1. Tower
    2. Rackmount
    3. Mainframes

Questions

  1. What really makes a computer a server?
  2. Can you build/run a server at home?
  3. Does it cost a lot to run a server at home?

Internal components of a computer

  1. Power supply
  2. Motherboard
  3. Hard drive / Solid State Disk ( SSD )
    1. RAID
      1. RAID-0
      2. RAID-1
      3. RAID-10
      4. RAID-2
      5. RAID-3
      6. RAID-4
      7. RAID-5
      8. RAID-6
      9. Non-standard RAID levels
    2. ZFS
      1. RAID-Z0
      2. RAID-Z1
      3. RAID-Z2
      4. RAID-Z3
      5. RAID-Z10
  4. Netowrk Interface Card ( NIC )
  5. Central Processing Unit ( CPU )
  6. Random Access Memory ( RAM )
  7. CD drive ( Obsolete?? ), not quite yet!!
  8. Add-on cards
    1. Extend capability
    2. HBA external disk array ( NAS / SAN )
  9. Additional NIC cards
    1. Fiber Channel ( FC )
      1. Faster network speed

External Ports

  1. USB ports
    1. Type A
    2. Type C
  2. HDMI port
  3. Video Graphics Array ( VGA )
  4. Audio ( microphone / headphones / speakers )