Definition: Seek Time


A measure (in milliseconds) of how fast the hard drive can move its read/write heads to a desired location.




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Read/write head

Element use to create and access the information stored magnetically on the platters/tape. A drive with several disk surfaces or platters will have a separate head for each data surface.

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