Dell-EMC
D-ISM-FN-01 · Question #633
What accurately describes the seek time of a disk drive?
The correct answer is A. Time taken to position the read/write head over the correct track. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Storage System Environment
Question
What accurately describes the seek time of a disk drive?
Options
- ATime taken to position the read/write head over the correct track
- BTime taken by the platter to position the data under the read/write head
- CTime taken to read a block of data from the platter
- DTime taken by the controller to service an I/O from the application
How the community answered
(31 responses)- A74% (23)
- B3% (1)
- C16% (5)
- D6% (2)
Topics
#seek time#disk drive#mechanical disk#I/O performance
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