[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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.
     
        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.
     
        1997-07-22
     
     
see also:
head disk drive track hard disk cd-rom 

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