How many bytes are there in each sector of the disk?

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The size of each sector on a disk is typically 512 bytes. A sector is an area divided on a disk. Each side of the disk is divided into tracks, concentric circles on the surface, the closer to the center, the smaller the circle, and each track is divided into units of 512 bytes.

A sector is the basic unit of disk storage data, and the size of each sector is generally 512 bytes.

Related knowledge introduction:

A sector is an area divided on a disk. Each track on the disk is divided into several arcs, which are sectors of the disk. The reading and writing of the hard disk are based on sectors.

Each side of the disk is divided into tracks, concentric circles on the surface, the closer to the center, the smaller the circle. Each track is divided into 512 bytes and is called a sector.

In some hard disk parameter lists you can see parameters describing the number of sectors per track, which is usually identified by a range, such as 373~746, which means that the outermost track has 746 sectors and the innermost track has 373 sectors, so it can be calculated that the track capacity is from 186.5KB to 373KB (190976B--381952B).

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