minimum seek time

minimum seek time

(storage)(Or track-to-track seek time) The time it takes tomove the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.The minimum seek time gives a good measure of the speed of thedrive in a single-user/single-process environment wheresuccessive read/write request are largely correlated and thusif correlated data is stored in nearby cylinders most seeksare from one cylinder to the next.