HARDWARES

HARDWARES

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 Computers are connected with different devices
by means of connections.
 It may be wired or wireless.
 Devices are connected through ports.
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 SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
 IDE, EIDE, Ultra IDE, ATA, and Ultra ATA
(Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) or Advanced
Technology Attachment (ATA))
 USB (Universal Serial Bus)
 FireWire and i.LINK (IEEE 1394)
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 SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a set of
standards for physically connecting and transferring data
between computers and peripheral devices.
Eg. disk drives, scanners, CD-Rom, printers, etc.
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 SCSI connections
may connect
internal or external
devices.
 Now provide faster
data transfers across
wider buses.
 It is expensive.
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 IDE, EIDE, Ultra IDE, ATA, and Ultra ATA
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) or ATA (Advanced
technology attachment) connections are used internally,
and they connect hard disks, CD- ROM, etc. (Inside the
PC only)
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 It is less expensive than for SCSI, but have some
limitations.
ie, Only one drive in a master/slave can be active once.
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 USB(Universal Serial Bus) . They are used to connect
external devices to computer.
 These devices are automatically recognized (“plug-and
play”) eg: Pen drive or flash drive, external hard
disk.
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 Its technology has improved in performance since it
has introduced.
 They are now common on video game, consoles,
cameras, GPS locators, cell phones, televisions, MP3
players, PDAs, and portable memory devices.
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 FireWire. Introduced by Apple in late 1980s, and in 1995 it
become an industry supporting standard (IEEE 1394) high
bandwidth serial data transfer, particularly for digital
video and mass storage-Sony calls this standard i.LINK.)
 USB devices can only be attached to one computer at a
time, FireWire can connect multiple computers and
peripheral devices.
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 This is used by both Microsoft and MAC.
 It is approved by Electronics Industries Association and
the Advanced Television Systems Committee(ATSC)
 FireWire has replaced Parallel SCSI in many applications
because it’s cheaper.