To begin, the disk is divided into concentric  circles of tracks.

首先，盘被分成多个同心圆。

The latest hard drives can have more than 500,000 tracks on just one side.

最新硬盘仅一面就可有过 500,000 个。

The UNIVAC used half-inch-wide tape with 8 parallel data tracks, each able to store 128 bits of data per inch.

UNIVAC 使具有 8 个并行数据半英寸宽带，每个每英寸能够存储 128 位数据。

Note that the read head is much smaller than the  write head, and as a result one shingled track can be reliably read at a time.

请注意， 读取头比写入头小得多，因此一次可可靠地读取一个叠瓦。

After that, we'll  dive into exactly how the drive stores data using the read and write head, and in the process, we'll  look at the tracks, sectors, and magnetic domains of the metal disk.

之后，我们将深入了解驱动器如何使读写头存储数据，在此过程中，我们将研究金属盘、扇区和畴。