Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
1,740,711,297 visitors served.
forum mailing list For webmasters
?
New: Language forums
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

average seek time

   Also found in: Acronyms 0.02 sec.
(storage)average seek time - The mean time it takes to move the head of a disk drive from one track to another, averaged over the source and destination cylinders. Usually measured in milliseconds (ms).

The average seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a multi-user environment where successive read/write request are largely uncorrelated.

Ten ms is common for a hard disk and 200 ms for an eight-speed CD-ROM.


How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
 Email
Feedback
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
6: average access time = average seek time + average latency time
SanDisk Launches 32-Gigabyte Solid State Drive Targeting Hard Disk ... by Business Wire
9-millisecond average seek time and an optional 16MB cache buffer.
Samsung Increases Storage Capacity with Hot New 400GB Parallel and ... by Business Wire
6GB media, and have a maximum 20MB/sec data transfer rate and 25ms average seek time.
Maxoptix Reaches For The Star by Computer Technology Review
More results
 
Encyclopedia browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Terms of Use.