Definition: Physical Damage


Damage to the physical unit. For a hard drive this may be damage to the electronics, the mechanics or the media itself.




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Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The main processing chip of a computer. The CPU interprets and executes the actual computing tasks, and has the ability to transfer information to and from other resources over the computer's main data-transfer path, the bus.

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