The phrase "a block device" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of computer science and technology to refer to a type of storage device that reads and writes data in fixed-size blocks.
Example: "The operating system requires a block device to manage file storage efficiently."
Alternatives: "a storage block" or "a block storage device".
You will use this interface to access the swap partition as a block device.
In Unix "sd" indicates a block device that can carry data.
This graph shows the effectiveness of the scheduling schemes, as the order in which the I/O requests are submitted to a block device plays a significant time in deciding the time taken to fulfill them.
Blktrace aids to captures the complete block layer I/O activities of a block device, right from I/O submission by process to completion of the request from the device.
The lifecycle of an AMI involves creating a template for the root volume for the instance, creating permissions to control the AWS accounts that can use the AMI to launch instances, and providing a block device mapping that specifies the volumes that need to be attached to the instance when launched.
Every new television set sold in America since 2000 is equipped with a "V-chip", a blocking device that Bill Clinton forced on the media industry in 1996.
Chinese researchers recently designed an urban sewage source heat pump system composed of a filth block device, a wastewater heat exchanger, a heat pump, and other assistant facilities, such as pumps, fans, and end user devices.
The easiest way to export a disk is to export an actual physical block device (a hard disk or a partition) from dom0 to one's virtual machine.
Disk access is done in Xen by a virtual block device (VBD).
The present review also describes the implementation and performance of a Virtio block device.
Within an SSD, its Flash Translation Layer (FTL) is responsible for exposing the SSD's flash memory storage to the computer system as a simple block device.
