Physical Disk Structure
Disk are made of metal platters with a read/write head flying over it.
To read from disk, we must specify:
cylinder #
surface #
sector #
transfer size
memory address
Transfer time includes: seek, latency, and transfer time
ReadWrite heads
Platters
Spindle
Track
Sector
Seek Time
Rot
Delay
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