maximum seek time

<storage>

(Or full stroke seek time) The time it takes to seek over all tracks, i.e., from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa. The maximum seek time gives a worst-case measure of the speed of the drive which is useful in some real-time applications where it is important that data flows continuously (such as video editing or CD recording).

Last updated: 1997-07-15

Nearby terms:

maximum Maytag modemaximum seek timemaximum segment sizeMaximum Transmission Unit

Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.



Loading