Expansion bay and slots By: Nicholas Sookhoo

What are they? Expansion Bay: - used to store the hard drive - can have different types of hard drive (e.g. IDE, SATA) - a computer usually comes with 3 expansion bays -inside of the computer Expansion Slots: - can have different types of cards - has PCI, PCI-E, PCI-Express x1, AGP, and PCI-E x16 - SSD's. NIC's, Video cards, Sound Cards, FM tuners, etc. - can be accessed from inside the computer -shown at the back of the computer

Overview -PCI means Peripheral Component Interconnect -These are found inside the computer - Found placed on the mother boards facing the ends

Connections to the computer -Found on the Mother Board - some graphic cards need power to they are connected with pins to the PSU (power supply) -Card is pushed into the socket and is then attached to the mother sending and receiving information -Hard drives are connected using SATA or IDE cables straight to the Mother Board

Labelled diagram of the PCI slots and Expansion Bay EXPANSION SLOT

Features Cards are pushed into the slots to provide they’re service This is the part that is pushed into the certain slot

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