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Computer fan. A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active cooling. Fans are used to draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from inside and move air across a heat sink to cool a particular component. Both axial and sometimes centrifugal (blower/squirrel-cage) fans are used in computers.
While this technique was originally applied to the refrigerator compartment, it was later used for freezer compartment as well. A combined refrigerator/freezer which applies self-defrosting to the refrigerator compartment only is usually called "partial frost free" or semi-automatic defrost (some brands call these "Auto Defrost" while Frigidaire referred to their semi-automatic models as ...
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Appearance. Software that shows the health of the drive and its smart attributes. [ 1 ] Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T. or SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). [ 2 ]
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 ] Components which have such functionality are said to be hot-swappable or hot-pluggable; likewise, components which do not are cold-swappable ...
A household electric fan. A large cylindrical fan. A fan is a powered machine used to create a flow of air. A fan consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades, generally made of wood, plastic, or metal, which act on the air. The rotating assembly of blades and hub is known as an impeller, rotor, or runner.
Computer cooling. A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background. A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components. Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan.
Quiet PC. A quiet, silent or fanless PC is a personal computer that makes very little or no noise. Common uses for quiet PCs include video editing, sound mixing and home theater PCs, but noise reduction techniques can also be used to greatly reduce the noise from servers. There is currently no standard definition for a "quiet PC", [1] and the ...
A hard disk drive(HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk[a]is an electro-mechanical data storage devicethat stores and retrieves digital datausing magnetic storagewith one or more rigid rapidly rotating platterscoated with magnetic material.