customer removable units

March 19, 2012 Create or Manage Your Profile Webopedia Daily customer removable units Customer Removable Units (CRUs) are components of a computer system that is external to the computer tower, and are considered replaceable by the user of the system. Generally customer removable units will not cause a partial or total system outage if replacement procedures are not followed correctly. Customer removable units on desktop computers include the monitor, keyboard, external cables, mouse, AC adapter, and external peripherals such as a printer, speakers, external modem, any external back-up device, external CD-ROM drive and external Zip drives. On a notebook computer, CRUs are typically any part which can easily be removed without unscrewing anything from the notebook itself. This could be the battery pack, CD-ROM drive, DVD drive, and sometimes, the hard drive. CRUs are generally considered to be non-reimbursable by the manufacturer. An individual manufacturer will be able to provide you with a CRU list for your computer, as the list may vary based on the exact model of computer or notebook, and may vary from one manufacturer to another. Previous Terms-of-the-Day Term of the Day Google Gadget Term of the Day on Twitter Video: Make Your Data Center Smarter Sponsored by IBM With 70% of today's IT budget spent on simply managing and maintaining the IT infrastructure, very little is left to fund strategic initiatives that fuel innovation. How can IT managers address today's operational challenges? Watch this webinar to see how IT can meet the needs of the business with limited resources. Start here! Click Here >> The New Workplace: Are You Ready? Implications for IT Managers White Paper: The Next Wave of Data Deduplication Video: Customer Lifetime Value for IT Video: Make Your Data Center Smarter White Paper: The Best Way to Build a Cloud Job Title: Web Developer/User Experience Lead Company: Westat Location: US-MD-Rockville Webopedia is on Facebook, Let's connect! Webopedia is on Facebook, are you? Let's connect! Join more than 7,000 Webopedia friends on Facebook and interact with the site's editors, post messages on the "Webopedia Wall," plus add comments on term definitions, articles, discuss technology and even suggest topics for inclusion in Webopedia. You are subscribed to an ITBusinessEdge.com newsletter as ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here. If you wish to be removed from all of our future emails, please click here. To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: ITBusinessEdge a property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.