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As simple as possible it is the time it takes a disk to find a piece of requested data.

Seek time is composed of two parts:

  1. The time to mechanically move the heads from the track they are on to the track the requested data is on, this is usually the longest part of seek time.
  2. The time for the disk to rotate and bring the data to the head, once the head is on the right track.

Most modern hard disks contain a cache memory, if the requested is still in the cache memory the effective seek time drops to zero as the drive doesn't have to access the disk.

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Seek time... is the amount of time (in milliseconds) that a computer takes to find a piece of information on (usually) a hard drive.

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