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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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What to call the box containing the CPU, Graphics Card, etc

Possible Duplicate: What do you call the main component of a computer system? I have a hard time talking to our techs when I want what I call the "tower" serviced (even though the stickers would indicate the box's orientation was supposed to be…
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Move Raidset from HP Smart Array P400 to E200

Is there a way to move a Raidset configured for a Raid0/1 from a HP DL380G5 with a SmartArray P400 Controller into a DL380G5 with an E200i. When I fit them in the new Server it does not recognize any Raidsets.
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Is it possible to use a blade server without the chassis?

Call me stupid, but is it possible to use an IBM BladeCenter HS20 server as a standalone unit without the BladeCenter?
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1 Computer Pulls Wrong DNS Every Morning

One of my users takes his laptop home, connects to his home network fine. He brings it in every morning and since Monday - every morning it pulls the wrong DNS every time. It pulls 1 DNS: 192.168.1.1 which is the router. The DNS are external IPs. I…
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Deploying SSL Certificate in server Cluster with HW Load Balancer

We have an application with 2 parallel servers and a Hardware Load Balancer but No Webserver is used. We want to implement SSL for the application. What should be the best approach? 1. Configure SSL certificates on both the Application servers…
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Unsure of the use for 2 spare servers, help us decide

My colleague asked me to cross-post this here to receive input from professionals: We have access to 2 unused servers RX300 S3: Disks: 2x73GB, 2x146GB & 2x300GB CPU: 2x 1,994Ghz (intel Xeon-ID 5130) Memory: 12GB RX300 S2: Disks:4x70GB CPU:…
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Need help with Server Case + Storage setup?

I'm pretty novice when it comes to high end server storage hardware. Right now i have just a mid tower case that is running hyper-v with 2 guess instances (1 Windows 7 + 1 Windows Home server). With the bad news that microsoft will remove DE from…
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High performance hard drives

I'm setting up a new web/database server that will perform a lot of read/write operations. So I want to use a RAID controller and use RAID 10. I need some help to decide what kind of hard drives I should get? VelociRaptor? SAS? (Is it worth the…
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3 hard drives fail with 2 enclosures and 2 pcs

here is the jist of my very strange problem... I had an old laptop hard drive(120gb toshiba) which was pulled working out of a laptop and placed into an enclosure. it worked fine for a while and saw little use only as a backup drive. one day, it…
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Does anybody know why HP offers only SATA SSD drives?

HP offers SSD drives for their ProLiant range of servers but they only come with SATA interfaces. This is strange because in the past drives with SATA interfaces were Second Class Citizens in the server area. Is there any technical/engineering…
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what server hardware does the amazon cloud use?

Does anyone know the hardware vendor amazon uses for their EC2 cloud?
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Comparing Intel Xeon 3460 vs 5620

Need help choosing between these two servers regarding to their performance: First one, Intel Xeon 3460 with 16 GB DDR3. Second one, Inter Xeon 5620 (Only one CPU) with 12 GIG/ECC Registerd. Both run on RAID10 SATA.
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hardware: delay and distinct 'click' before hard drive access

I have a windows 7 box stashed away in my closet, containing (among other things) 2 big HDDs linked together as a mirrored volume - basically a super lazy NAS / media server. I've noticed that when that drive is accessed (whether locally, on the…
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Recommendation of Data Recovery Company

Have a customer that temporarily moved his work to a 2.5" WD Passport drive without a problem. Long story short drive no longer mounts on any computer. Issue is that he has a current project there. Windows does not mount drive and OS X says "The…
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Monitoring HP and Dell hardware in Gentoo

I'm working in an environment that features a large number of Gentoo servers running on HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge equipment. While I've moved some of these systems to RedHat or CentOS for consistency, I'm still left with a good number of…
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