seek time

English

Noun

seek time (countable and uncountable, plural seek times)

1. (computing, computer hardware) The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.

Derived terms

• average seek time
• full stroke seek time
• maximum seek time
• minimum seek time
• track-to-track seek time