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  2. Disk buffer - Wikipedia

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    A 500 GB Western Digital hard disk drive with a 16 MB buffer. In computer storage, a disk buffer (often ambiguously called a disk cache or a cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is ...

  3. Motherboard form factor - Wikipedia

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    To serve as a central backbone to which all other modular parts such as CPU, RAM, and hard drives can be attached as required to create a computer; To be interchangeable (in most cases) with different components (in particular CPU and expansion cards) for the purposes of customization and upgrading; To distribute power to other circuit boards

  4. List of RAM drive software - Wikipedia

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    RAM drive software allows part of a computer's RAM (memory) to be seen as if it were a disk drive, with volume name and, if supported by the operating system, drive letter. A RAM drive has much faster read and write access than a hard drive with rotating platters, and is volatile, being destroyed with its contents when a computer is shut down ...

  5. Hot swapping - Wikipedia

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    Hot-swapping a hard drive in a storage server. Hot swapping is the replacement or addition of components to a computer system without stopping, shutting down, or rebooting the system; [1] hot plugging describes the addition of components only. [2]

  6. Computer case - Wikipedia

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    Inside a gaming case during gameplay. 360° photograph. A full tower case. Accessories shown include: a fan controller, a DVD burner, and a USB memory card reader.. Cases can come in many different sizes and shapes, which are usually determined by the form factor of the motherboard since it is physically the largest hardware component in most computers. Consequently, personal computer form ...

  7. CAMM (memory module) - Wikipedia

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    Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) is a memory module form factor which uses a land grid array, and developed at Dell by engineer Tom Schnell as a replacement for DIMMs and SO-DIMMs which use edge connectors and had been in use for about 25 years. [1]

  8. Flour Bugs Are a Real Thing—Here’s an Easy Way to ... - AOL

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    In this case, the pesky bugs, which are actually called weevils, infest the whole kernels and lay eggs in the wheat grains before it's been milled into flour, Quoc Le tells Delish.

  9. RAM drive - Wikipedia

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    The 128kB Atari 130XE (with DOS 2.5) and Commodore 128 natively support RAM drives, as does ProDOS for the Apple II. On systems with 128kB or more of RAM, ProDOS automatically creates a RAM drive named /RAM. IBM added a RAM drive named VDISK.SYS to PC DOS (version 3.0) in August 1984, which was the first DOS component to use extended memory.