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> for this reason the number of sectors per track are greater the further the track is from the centre of the platter. Yet the head will pass over the entire track in the same amount of time...

an additional consequence is that for the same amount of data it takes lesser number of tracks thus making for faster/shorter seeks inside that data.




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