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Glossary Recordable CD / Term

Sector

The smallest recordable unit on a CD. A disk can contain [(75 sectors per second) x (60 seconds per minute) x (number of minutes on disk)] sectors. The amount of data contained in the sector depends on what physical format and mode it is recorded in; for "regular" CD-ROM (Mode 1) data, you can fit 2048 bytes (2 kilobytes) of data into a sector.

Permanent link Sector - Creation date 2020-06-24


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