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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Storage Medium

Collective description of all types of media used for data storage. Examples: hard disk, floppy disk, MO, streamer tape, DAT, DLT, CD.

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