Types of Drives
HDD
What is a Hard Disk Drive?
Electrons
What are the negatively charged particles?
Physical On/Off switch
What is the power switch?
High end video cards.
What is a PCIExpress?
OCP
What is Over Power Protection?
SSD
What is a Solid State Drive?
Voltage
What is the pressure of the electrons?
VDC
What is Voltage Direct Current?
L shaped connector that supplies 3.3, 5, and 12Vs
What is a SATA connector?
Has a wattage rating for a total output maximum load.
What is a power supply?
A hard drive does this vital thing.
What is used to store information?
Amperage times voltage will give you this.
What is wattage?
VAC
What is Voltage Alternating Current?
P1
What is a 20 or 24 pin connector?
A computer fan requres this wattage
What is 5W?
Hybrid Drives (list both of them)
What are SSHD and DDS? (Solid-State Hybrid Drive and Dual-Drive solutions)
DC
What is Direct Current?
PSU
What is Power Supply Unit?
4 pin connector that supplies 5V and 12V for FDD and fans.
What is a Mini?
A PCIe x 16 video card requires this wattage.
What is 150-300W?
There are three types of optical drives.
What are CDs, DVDs, and BDs? (Compact Discs, Digital Video Discs, and Blue-ray Discs)
AC
What is Alternating Current?
Tells the BIOS to start up when pressed
What is soft power?
4 pin connector that supplies 5V and 12V IDE drives.
What is a Molex?
The total wattage required by a motherboard, processor memory, keyboard, and mouse.
What is 200-300W?