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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

seek time

This is the time taken to move the read/write heads to the correct track on a disk.

Related terms
readylatencydiskdisk drivedisk packfloppy diskhard diskhard driveinsert (disk) (1)parkread/write headsectortrack
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Hardware › storage
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