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Computer repair, network survey and iPads

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Computer repair and maintainance During my stay I have been doing some computer repair and maintenance on various machines. On one occasion I were tasked with swapping out the HDD's in the library computers with SSD's. The difference in these is that HDD's have a disk that spins around several thousand times per minute that a moving head writes to. They have a massive storage capability, some up to 12TB (Terrabyte, aprox. 12000GB), but given that they have moving parts they can easily damage if they were to be bumped too hard. SSD's have no moving parts and can therefore be a bit safer and even faster alternative. The only downside is that as of right now they're not able to store as much data as an single HDD can. Another task that I got done today as of writing this (Fri. 01.11.2019) were to do some checkups on a couple of computers in the ICT rooms where students come to use the computers during classes. A lot of the fans were having noise issues regarding