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A data storage device accessed in numbered fixed-size blocks. This interface amortizes command overhead and accommodates the physical transfer granularity of the storage medium.

A data storage device that records information magnetically on rotating platters. Accessing a sector can require moving a head to its track, waiting for the sector to rotate beneath it, and transferring the data. These contributions are seek time, rotational latency and data transfer time.^[ref]