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The amount of time required for a disk drive to move the heads across one-third of the total number of sylinders Seek time is a part of the average access time for a drive
time required to move the disk head (Computers)
  The time required for the access arm of a direct-access storage device to be positioned on the appropriate track   Synonym  positioning time
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
The time required for a read/write head of a disk to move to track where record to be read or written is stored Maximum seek time is taken for head to move form the outermost track to the innermost track
The amount of time that a disk drive's head takes to move to a specific location on a disk
The time required for an access arm to position over a particular track on a disk
time it takes to move the read/write head of a drive to the proper track on the storage disk Measured in milliseconds (ms)
The amount of time, in milliseconds, for a disk head to move to a specific disk track
The time taken for the actuator to move the heads to the correct cylinder in order to access data
Seek time is an average of how long a drive takes to move the read/write heads to a particular track on the disc It includes controller overhead but does not include drive latency
In disk accessing, the time it takes to move the read/write heads to the proper cylinder
The time it takes to read from disk a piece of data that isn't there
The time it takes for a disk drive's read/write head to find a specific track on the disk platter Seek time does not include latency nor the time it takes for the controller to send signals to the read/write head

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track-to-track seek time
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to an adjacent data track
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