Meaning seek time
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seek time


The time required for the access arm of a direct-access storage device to be positioned on the appropriate track. Synonym positioning time.
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Refers to the time a program or device takes to locate a particular piece of data. For disk drives, the terms seek time and access time are often used interchangeably. Technically speaking, however, t [..]
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seek time


How long it takes a hard drive to find a specific track on the platter.
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the time it takes for a disk drive to find a particular piece of data on the disk. Lower seek times are better, but it's only one factor in overall disk speed. The data-transfer rate -- how fast [..]
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Seek time is the time taken for a hard disk controller to locate a specific piece of stored data. Other delays include transfer time (data rate) and rotational delay (latency). When anything is read o [..]
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seek time


The time required for the access arm of a direct-access storage device to be positioned on the appropriate track. The movement of a hard disk head in search of the right data track on a platter. Elect [..]
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