When Your Hard Drive Has to Wait for the Correct

question 100

Multiple Choice

When your hard drive has to wait for the correct sector to spin to the read/write head, the delay is known as ________.

• A) read time
• B) access time
• C) seek time
• D) latency

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Definitions:

Examples

Examples are specific instances or items that are representative of a general case or category, often used to illustrate a point or explain a concept.

Normally Distributed

A distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of numbers, indicating how much the individual numbers differ from the mean of the set.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the count of numbers.