Answer to Question #153268 in Computer Networks for Rashinda

Question

Define the following disc terminologies.

a)  Tracks

Sectors

Answer 1

A track is a physical division of data in a disk drive i.e. a circular path on the surface of a disk on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information can be read.

A sector is a segment within each track or circle.It is a fixed sized unit of sequential data stored on track of digital medium usually 512bytes