Magnetic Hard Disks
  • Platters (1 to 15 per disk)
  • Tracks (1000 to 5000 per platter surface)
  • Sectors (64 to 200 per track) contain:
    • sector number
    • gap
    • data for that sector (e.g. 512 bytes)
    • gap
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