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Low cost computer:
General day-to-day office work, data processing, email, and Internet browsing
4 GB ram
Windows 7 32-bit
Onboard video
Onboard sound
Two Onboard SATA ports
A good processor to use with this computer would be an Intel Core i3. The i3 is good for regular computer work like that mentioned above. The two on-board SATA ports would basically limit the user to an optical (Blu-Ray or DVD) drive and a hard drive. Onboard sound and video are more than enough for what is described above in terms of tasks. 4 GB of RAM would also be more than enough. One note is that upgrading the RAM at some future point (even if the motherboard is capable of it) would not be possible so long as Windows 7-32 bit is the OS in question (Domingo, 2015).
Mid-range Computer:
Multitasking of applications, dual monitor capability
8 GB ram
Windows 7 64-bit
AGP video
PCI sound
4 onboard SATA ports
The above is a good mid-range computer and an Intel Core i5 (or AMC, etc. equivalent) would do the job. Since there are 8 GB of RAM, this would necessitate using Windows 7-64 bit ... and that is in order. PCI and AGP are both a tad dated and there...
PCI-Express is the norm (other than onboard) when it comes to video nowadays (Domingo, 2015).
High Performance Computer:
Network monitoring and scanning, virtualization, data storage, and file server
- 16 GB ram
- Windows 7 64-bit
- AGP video
- PCI sound
- 4 onboard SATA ports
- RAID 0, 1, 5 capability
The processor to use here is a Core i7 as that is the best of what Intel has to offer. Again, PCI Express is the way to go whenever possible. AGP is obsolete and PCI is heading that way. However, having the four SATA ports and Raid 0/1/5 capability is a good thing. A bump up in RAM to 32 GB would be a good thing and many modern motherboards have the four slots and capability necessary to pull this off (Domingo, 2015).
Part 2: RAID
Explain the different types of RAID, and elaborate on how each type differs.
a. Spanning (JBOD)
JBOD is an acronym for "Just a Bunch of Disks." This method, otherwise known as spanning, is a way to take a disparate set of drives and slap them together in one volume. For example, if someone has two 4 TB drives and a 2 TB drive and…
