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Time taken to move from one cylinder of a HDD to another is called ______________.

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Transfer Rate
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Average seek time
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Latency
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Roundtrip time
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The correct option is B Average seek time

Time taken to move from one cylinder of a HDD to another is called Average seek time.

A hard drive's average seek time is typically calculated by approximating how long it takes to look for data over one-third of the hard drive's tracks. Though the average seek time is the most common way to measure this value, it can be done in two other ways too: track-to-track and full stroke.

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.

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. Note that this is about 200 times slower than average DRAM.

Data transfer rate is an important indication to measure hard disk performance. It can be divided into external transfer rate and internal transfer rate. External transfer rate is commonly called burst data transfer rate or interface transfer rate. It refers to the speed of outputting data from the hard disk cache.


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