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pc tower : what is the mean of exposed on HDD

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  • Started 2 months ago by PP3TNC
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PP3TNC
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what is the mean of exposed on HDD?

i had no idea what did it means as i guess all the HDD is enclosed in the tower inside or hidden

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G41M
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Can you elaborate more. Of course, when you open/dismantle an hdd you expose the internal parts. Or, one can situate an hdd outside the case which I sometimes do when testing hdd's.

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PP3TNC
Posts: 212

i find the phrase from PC tower description,

3.5 inch/HDD 5 hidden 2 exposed

so i had no idea what did it means?

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GuiltySpark
GuiltySpark
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Hidden drives usually refers to HDD and exposed drives are usually Optical drives (cd/dvd).

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LadyFitzgerald
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Since they are 3.5" HDDs, my guess is there are five internally mounted HDDS and two that can be installed from the outside, probably hot-swappable.

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