Talk:Disk sector

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Zoned bit recording

I think we need good linking to Zoned Bit Recording, otherwise any understanding about sectors is really confusing. I was trying to work out how the data transfer rate "depends on the track location, so it will be higher for data on the outer tracks (where there are more data sectors) and lower on the inner tracks". This article, and the diagram in particular, indicate there are the same number from inside to outside. It now appears that this hasn't been the case for 20 years.

See also the following, particularly the diagram: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/tracks_ZBR.htm. Amniarix (talk) 20:00, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Sector size

It should be noted that there have been sector sizes that were not a power of two. Disk drives produced for the IBM System/38 and it's follow-on products used 520-byte sectors.drh (talk) 22:20, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

It should be noted that a sector size of 256 bytes was quite common. The HP 3000 operating system (MPE), and others, had that number well enshrined in their code and documentation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.76.52.65 (talk) 18:47, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I agree that the claim

The standard sector size of 512 bytes for magnetic disks was established with the inception of the hard disk drive in 1956.

is dubious. See Talk:Advanced Format#512-byte ... since the inception of the hard-disk drive in 1956. DHR (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

If you look at the citation to that claim, it is for a disk with 100 character sectors. On top of all that 128 byte sectors were reasonably common on single density disks and later CP/M formats used sectors up to 2048 bytes (that I know of) all with block sizes of 128 bytes.  Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.163.243.81 (talk) 19:54, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Standard Sector Size

Proposed merge with Storage block

Disk Sector History

Requested move 16 December 2019

Terminology

Inappropriate use of term sector

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