Unknown Things About Your PC

 

In the fast growing tech market of portable devices like smartphones, laptops and tablets, the desktop computers are literally being forgotten by people. Our PCs have given us the stepping stone for the devices used by us today, and has eased our usage on them. So here are some of the peanut sized facts that desktops have thought us about.

# The work That Goes into CTRL V and CTRL C: The solid state drive used in our PCs for data storage uses an integrated circuit assembly as a memory to store data. The SSDs have no mechanical moving components like the spinning disks and the read or write heads. The absence of these makes over writing of the older data with a newer one difficult with its complicated process of working. So from next time think when you need to shift pieces of data from your old computer.

# Bits, bytes and size: The smallest unit of storage in a computer is a binary digit or bit. A bit can store only 0 or 1 and a string of 8 bits is called a byte. To specify the sizes of the computer data files the terms like kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte is used. Every kilobyte has 1024 bytes and every gigabyte has 1024 megabytes and breaking it into lowest level will give you 8 bits in a byte.

# The distance data travels: A computer helps you view any part of the world and gets you all the information about the place right on your computer screens. With apps like Google earth, the connectivity has grown so much that we can pretty much view every street in U.S or Europe from our homes. All the data is delivered to you in seconds depending on your internet connection.

# Binary Coding: Binary coding represents computer’s processing instructions using binary digits like 0 and 1. Binary codes are used for various methods of encoding data such as character strings to bit strings. A bit string is interpreted as a binary number which can be translated into a decimal number. Every action in the computing world takes place with either 0 or 1 and all the counting starts with 0 instead of 1, which actually translates to a neat bit of programming.

# Everything on the internet is on the computer: Every time you stream a video on the internet, it technically plays off your computer. The best example for this would be the buffering time on the sites like YouTube, where your computer allows the media file to create a local copy of itself on the cache memory, which allows the videos to be watched even if the internet stops working.