Average access time in the magnetic disk is of the order of ____________.
Average access time in the magnetic disk is of the order of 50 milisecond.
Fast hard disk drivesfor personal computers boast access times of about 9 to 15 milliseconds. Note that this is about 200 times slower than average DRAM. The access time for disk drives includes the time it actually takes for the read/write head to locate a sector on the disk (called the seek time).
Access time is also frequently used to describe the speed of disk drives. Disk access times are measured in milliseconds (thousandths of a second), often abbreviated as ms. Fast hard disk drivesfor personal computers boast access times of about 9 to 15 milliseconds.
Seek Time is measured defines the amount of time it takes a hard drive's read/write head to find the physical location of a piece of data on the disk. Latency is the average time for the sector being accessed to rotate into position under a head, after a completed seek.