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minimum seek time

(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.

Last updated: 1997-07-15

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minimax ♦ Mini-ML ♦ minimum seek time ♦ Mini PL/I ♦ Ministra ♦ MINITAB II

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