NOUN
- (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
How To Use seek time In A Sentence
- access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead
- Seek time is measured in milliseconds and the fastest drives can access data in around 5ms.
- Superficially, the WD S25 appears similarly to the VelociRaptor, but it has much faster read and write seek times at 3.6 ms and 4.2 ms respectively.
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- It has an unformatted capacity of 80GB, average seek time of 9ms, a 7200 rpm spindle speed and a buffer size of 2MB.