The amount of time it takes, measured in milliseconds, for a media device to locate a piece of data.
The average time required for a magnetic or optical head to move to a new track.
The time taken for the actuator to move the heads to the correct cylinder in order to access data.
time needed to reposition the disc arm from its current track to the required track.
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.
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
A measure (in milliseconds) of how fast the hard drive can move its read/write heads to a desired location.
The performance of fixed or removable drives is measured by seek time, or the amount of time required for the arm of a direct access storage device to be positioned over the appropriate track.
The amount of time it takes the Read/Write heads to travel from their current cylinder location to a new cylinder. This includes head settling time.
The time required to move a disk drive's read/write head to a specific location on a disk.
The amount of time required for a disk head to position itself at the right disk cylinder to access requested data.
Amount of time to find the correct position to start or read the data.
The time to position the read/write head to a specified track location on the disk, not including head setting time
The time it takes for the disk heads to get into position over the appropriate track. Average Seek Time is derived from a number of measured random seeks and the head setting time, which is the time required for the heads' mechanical and electrical components to stabilize after positioning on the target cylinder.
Occurs when the disk read/write heads are not positioned on the required track. It describes the elapsed time taken to move heads to the right track.
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.
The time it takes for the head in a drive to move to a data track.
The amount of time, in milliseconds, for a disk head to move to a specific disk track.
Seek time is one of the several delays associated with reading or writing data on a computer's disk drive, and somewhat similar for CD or DVD drives. The others are rotational delay and transfer time. In order to read or write data in a particular place on the disk, the read/write head of the disk needs to be physically moved to the correct place.