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Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.

There are multiple, physical components that are required for a computer to function. This is collectively referred to as the "hardware". The most notable components inside of a computer system is the RAM, Hard Disk (or hard drive), CPU, and Power Supply.

Outside of the case, however, hardware exists as well. Some of these components include the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

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Optimal Configuration for five 300 GB 15K SAS Drives

I recently acquired an HP Z800 workstation that has five 300 GB 15K SAS Drives. This system will be dedicated to running multiple virtual machines under VMware Workstation (Note: I'm not using ESXi because I do plan to use the system for other…
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FreeBSD after motherboard replacement; should I have any concerns?

So after three years my motherboard (Asus M2N-0MX) has died off. As I go shopping for its replacement tomorrow I have a concern about the data that I currently have on the drives wtihin. I'm currently running BSD 6.2, and am wondering if there would…
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Hardware multipliers

Can someone explain the different system multipliers? I know this is a base clock (a.k.a the System clock) then there is a multiplier for the Front side bus (FSB), RAM module, maybe for the RAM chips, and other internal busses like PCI, AGP, etc. …
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VMWare Workstation Dev Machine Disks: one fast or four echofriendly raid?

I'm building a new dev computer. It will be running a few VMWare Worksation virtual machines - A dev machine running VS-2010, a build machine, a version-control machine, a web server for testing, a "personal" machine running office etc. I'll be…
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Current minimum hardware requirements for a designer workstation?

One of our designers is struggling for resources with this current workstation with the following specs: CPU: AMD Athlon X64 X2 4000+ (2GHZ) RAM: 2x 1GB GFX: nVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS HDD: Samsung HD161HJ (7200RPM) Applications that are mainly used…
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HP DL160 vs DL360 for virtualization

We're planning to consolidate our infrastructure (a dozen servers). We'll buy two or three identical new servers who will be setup as a XenServer pool. Load balancing and HA tools will monitor the pool and vMotion VMs in case of failure/overload. I…
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Looking for QNX compatible server hardware

Can you help me to find compatible modern server for QNX, please? This is quite rare OS, so most of the hardware vendors do not have compatibility information. It would be very helpful to me if you can do the following: Download iso…
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How many users are "many users"?

I need to find a solution for a website which is struggling under load. The site gets ~500 simultaneous connections during peak time, and counts around 42k hits per day. It's a wordpress based site bridged with a vbulletin forum with a lot of…
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Choosing hardware for Flash Media Server

Having read the answers in this discussion, I still would like to come up with the same question: What should I buy to run Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5? I just have slightly different boundary conditions. We plan to serve video to ca. 1,000…
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Hardware issue: UI freezes and hard drive light goes solid several times per hour

I have a workstation that has been acting up for the last few weeks. It currently has Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on it, and 2 HDD mirrored. A few times per hour the screen will freeze up, applications will say "not responding", sometimes the…
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How to know the number of CPUs and spec for each CPU/Core in Ubuntu Karmic?

How to know the number of CPUs and spec for each CPU/Core in Ubuntu Karmic?
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How to prevent Windows from safely removing hardware?

We have HP laptops with a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet card. For some reason, it is possible to 'safely remove' the network card from Windows. Obviously this disconnects the machine from the network. Even worse, removing the network cable…
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Is it possible to dedicate the physical screen of a vmware server machine to a guest vm graphically?

I have a vmware server 2.x running on ubuntu server (8.04). So the graphics card and the screen of the physical box are unused (I log in remotely and the host os has only the cli console installed). I wonder if it is possible to assign this graphics…
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How can i easily gather hardware information for bug report submission?

I think I have found a bug in Ubuntu 10.04 beta, but since its a fairly vague problem of non booting after an install (Question Here) i wanted to know what information to gather? Summary of question: Install of 10.04 goes happily, but boots to a…
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Evaluate a vendor laptop before deployment to user?

I get numerous requests from executives and users for new smaller laptops for travel purposes. Most of my evaluation is based upon whether or not it can run certain applications. Mainly lotus notes, office, and video. Most of the laptops include…
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