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A disk sector is the smallest unit of storage on a magnetic disk or solid-state drive (SSD). It's a fundamental concept in computer storage that refers to a specific, fixed-size portion of a disk's surface that holds a block of data. Typically, a sector is 512 bytes or 4,096 bytes in size, depending on the storage device and its formatting.

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