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What is meant by seek time, rotational latency and utilization in case of disk drive
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written 8.6 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 67k

Seek time:

  • The seek time of a hard disk measures the amount of time required for the read/write heads to move between tracks over the surfaces of the platters.

  • Seek time is normally expressed in milliseconds (commonly abbreviated "msec" or "ms"), with average seek times for most modern drives today …

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