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  • The smallest addressable portion of a disk is called
Multiple choice

The smallest addressable portion of a disk is called

  1. sector

  2. track

  3. record

  4. bit

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Explanation

A sector is the smallest physical storage unit on a disk drive. Tracks are concentric rings, and sectors are subdivisions of those tracks.

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