COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Internal HDDs are installed in your computer, close to your CPU and other key components. This proximity and setup make internal HDDs faster and more durable than external HDDs. While external HDDs offer similar technology, they’re portable devices that connect to your computer via USB or FireWire™.

Detailed explanation-2: -Internal 3.5-inch hard disk drives are typically mounted in a drive cage or in an available drive bay. Placement and orientation of the cages or bays will vary from case to case. The most common location is at the lower front, near the intake fans and away from other components.

Detailed explanation-3: -An internal hard drive is the primary storage device located inside a computer system. It usually contains pre-installed software applications, the operating system and other files.

Detailed explanation-4: -Internal hard drives are located inside your computer. Unlike an external hard drive, these drives are not portable and only be used by the computer they inhabit. There are two main kinds of internal hard drives: the HDD (hard disk drive) and the SSD (solid state drive).

Detailed explanation-5: -The hard drive contains a spinning platter with a thin magnetic coating. A “head” moves over the platter, writing 0’s and 1’s as tiny areas of magnetic North or South on the platter. To read the data back, the head goes to the same spot, notices the North and South spots flying by, and so deduces the stored 0’s and 1’s.