Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• Literal
• I, Carlos Cerrillos affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32.5 hours of work.
• My main source of information regarding company needs for computer requirements was my mentor Maria, I worked with her to plan how we would go about replacing everyone's computers. The article "The Nuts and Bolts of Making BYOD Work." by Brent Gatewood was helpful due to the laptops-as-desktops scenario being similar to a BYOD infrastructure.
• Independent Component 1 Log
• Interpretive
• The work I did was essential to my senior project as an important part of IT deals with setting up new technologies, making sure that they work & that the employees have the knowledge to use them, which applied to my earlier EQ.

 The only new desktop we purchased as the employee doesn't need to work on the go.

 A picture I took of the office printer's model number so I could find the drivers online.

 Optimizing settings for the printer & creating presents for Color/BW/Double-sided.

 Installing those necessary programs.

 A little Gandalf reference while I was waiting for loading bars >_>

 A shot of the HP laptops we chose.

 Working on two computers at once, the other laptop is connected to the monitor in the background and can be seen on the left.

 Another computer.

 Yay! The 2TB WD drives arrived!!

 Fitting two of the hard drives at the bottom of the server case.

 A shot of one of the WD hard drives.

 Two more of the 5 hard drives at the top& the arrow points to the CD drive that I had to remove.

 Wiring up the power for drives.

 Enabling the drives in the server's BIOS.

 Checking in the operating system to see if all the drives are being properly detected.

 Stickers that come with the drives.

 My hands would have been dirtier if the server hadn't been cleaned a few months back.

Semi unrelated, but while I was at the Jeved office I noticed that Ale had put up the flyers I had made for AgaveGirls (a part of Jeved) over the last year. If you look closely you can see the reflection of my Tardis slippers, it was Sunday, and I wanted to go to mentorship in comfort x]. I felt proud of my work being displayed :]


• Applied
• This component help me understand the foundation of my topic by working on the back bone of IT which is the actual hardware, and learning what it takes to set it all up. Along with teaching the employees how to make the most of their technologies.