PPT MCQ Question-3
Cylinder: The collection of tracks of the same number on a disk that is the tracks that can be read form or written to with a single positioning of the accessing mechanism.
Track: The tracks are the thin concentric circular strips of sectors. At least one head is required to read a single track.
Sector: A sector is the smallest storage unit that is addressable by a hard drive and information stored by the hard drive is recorded in sectors. Common sector sizes are 512 bytes for hard disk and 2048 bytes for CDs and DVDs but another size such as 128 bytes and 1024 bytes are also used.