1. A host, comprising: an interface for communicating with at least one Data Storage Device (DSD) including a plurality of media portions for storing data, wherein each media portion of the plurality of media portions is a disk surface of a rotating magnetic disk or a die of a solid-state memory; and a processor configured to: receive media mapping information from the at least one DSD via the interface, the media mapping information indicating one or more ranges of multiple addresses assigned to each media portion of the plurality of media portions; use at least one of an Operating System (OS), a file system, and a driver to partition the one or more ranges of multiple addresses to define a partition or a logical device for each media portion of the plurality of media portions based on the received media mapping information; and identify, using the defined partition or logical device, each media portion of the plurality of media portions as a separate Object Storage Device (OSD) in an object based storage cluster such that each disk surface or die of the plurality of media portions is identified as a separate OSD.