22/10/12 Hardware Of A Computer

Today we did many thing about installing and upgrading hardware in a computer.
The first task we did was pretend that we had our own business and we had an email from a customer wanting to know whether it is worth upgrading their two year old computer.
The first thing we had to do is say about the main areas of upgrading a computer which are split in to three groups: speed, capacity and compatibility;
The amount of RAM would determine how fast multitasking would be and how smooth the user experiences is when using your computer. The higher the RAM the more programs you can run simultaneously without any hiccups with the system and all the programs that are running.
The hard drive would be the capacity and if the hard drive is near the full capacity it would considerably slow you computer down. when change the internal hard drive you will need to back up the existing hard drive on backup programs like cloud. then you will need to install the new hard drive which will have more capacity than the old one that you just replaced. if you want to get rid of your hard drive it would be ideal to smash it to pieces and then melt it but only done by professionals, the reason for doing this is because even when you wipe the hard drive you can still recover information, picture, videos etc. the information could be confidential and you want people to get hold.
Compatibility would be things like processor or graphics card. operating systems could be another. you need to make sure it is worth upgrading your old computer before installing the new hardware.

We had to put labor charges in and how much the hardware will roughly cost
one we wrote the email we had to send it off to our tutor so he can go through it and see if it is up to scratch and then he will send it back telling us what we will need to improve.

The second task we did today:
We had to create a presentation about the risks that may occur when changing/upgrading hardware in a computer. the main risks i went over were static shock, sharp metal, electrical current and liquids near the computer at the time of upgrading hardware.

Overall, today went very well and i enjoyed the lesson we had with our tutor. I think I am really benefiting from the course even though we are only three days in to the course. I am work very hard and try to complete all of the work on time.