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What is the difference between a sector and a cluster?
A sector is the smallest unit of input/output (I/O) that the hardware can understand; this value is generally 512 B block of data.
A cluster is the smallest unit of I/O that the operating system can deal with, and will vary from 1-64 sectors (512 B - 32 KB) -- in increments of powers of two.
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