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)