Disk sector
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disk-sector-170-11976897
title:
Disk sector
text:
In computer disk storage, a sector is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs), and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and BD-ROMs. Newer HDDs and SSDs use 4096 byte (4 KiB) sectors, which are known as the Advanced Format (AF). The sector is the minimum storage unit of a hard drive. Most disk partitioning schemes are designed to have files occupy an int
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Logical or physical division of storage media
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_sector
date created:
2006-11-28T21:39:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T11:09:07Z
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13
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