Week 3 - Hardware

This week we learned that there is a lot of hardware used in computing systems. For example, the motherboard, (which is the main circuit of the system unit, sound cards,) the power supply, processors, and memory (RAM/ROM).  A user starting their own business, like me for this project, has a lot of options between choosing a variety of processors and memory capacities. However, the more intelligent and capable the hardware is, on average, the more expensive it becomes. Therefore, hardware is probably the most costly but rudimentary component in starting a business, especially for my entrepreneurship project which is run on the Internet and requires a whole cohesive set of computing hardware to function.

There are several hardware I need for my business. First of all, servers to access the hardware and software necessary for maintaining my website. This would let me support several thousand computers and users connected at the same time. Next, a mainframe, a powerful computer that also supports thousands of users, which will store all the information and databases my website will aggregate. I would need a supercomputer which processes tons of information per second because my website is large-scale and requires several calculations and designs.  I would need several computers for my web developers and designers: either desktop computers, personal computers with optimal memory storage, and workstations that supply a monitor, screen, keyboards and a mouse.  For these computers, the processors need to be high-intel, they have to allow a large L2 Cache to store temporary data and have the operating system works fast and smoothly. With that, a large clock speed cycle in the hard drive would be optimal so that fetching, decoding, executing, and storing can occur and the workers can program and run large software on their computers.

Finally, I would need networking hardware to connect to the internet such as routers, modems, wires, WAPs (wireless access points). And just to top it off, like any business, I would need instrumental hardware like printers, scanners, USB storage, external hard disks, and speakers.