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storage (Or track-to-track seek time) The time it takes to
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)