minimum seek time

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minimum seek time - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  minimum seek time
  
     <storage> (Or track-to-track seek time) The time it takes to
     move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.
     The minimum seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the
     drive in a single-user/single-process environment where
     successive read/write request are largely correlated and thus
     if correlated data is stored in nearby cylinders most seeks
     are from one cylinder to the next.
  
     (1997-07-15)