Question

The time for which a piece of equipment operates is called ___________.

• A. Seek time
• B. Effective time
• C. Access time
• D. Real time
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Effective time

The time for which a piece of equipment operates is called Seek time.

Refers to the time a program or device takes to locate a particular piece of data. For disk drives, the terms seek time and access time are often used interchangeably. Technically speaking, however, the access time is often longer the seek time because it includes a brief latency period.

Seek time is the time taken for a hard disk controller to locate a specific piece of stored data. Other delays include transfer time (data rate) and rotational delay (latency).