Disk transfers are purely electronic, and is the process of transferring data from the disk drive to the computer and vice-versa. Disk transfer times are usually measured in nano- or microseconds. Seek time is the average time taken to move the drive head to the track on the disk which holds the data you need. It is mechanical (involving moving a drive head) and thus slow. It is often measured in milliseconds. Milliseconds are much larger than microseconds, and thus are not insignificant. In this context, "insignificant" means "much smaller".
Disk transfers are purely electronic, and is the process of transferring data from the disk drive to the computer and vice-versa. Disk transfer times are usually measured in nano- or microseconds. Seek time is the average time taken to move the drive head to the track on the disk which holds the data you need. It is mechanical (involving moving a drive head) and thus slow. It is often measured in milliseconds. Milliseconds are much larger than microseconds, and thus are not the same...
Disk transfers are purely electronic, and is the process of transferring data from the disk drive to the computer and vice-versa. Disk transfer times are usually measured in nano- or microseconds. Seek time is the average time taken to move the drive head to the track on the disk which holds the data you need. It is mechanical (involving moving a drive head) and thus slow. It is often measured in milliseconds. Milliseconds are much larger than microseconds, and thus seek times do greatly exceed transfer times.
Seek time is the average time taken to move the drive head to the track on the disk which holds the data you need. It is mechanical (involving moving a drive head) and thus slow. It is often measured in milliseconds. It has nothing directly to do with searching, and certainly is involved with all types of data, and not just sorted lists...
Seek time is the average time taken to move the drive head to the track on the disk which holds the data you need. It is mechanical (involving moving a drive head) and thus slow. It is often measured in milliseconds, not nanoseconds (or even microseconds).
- is insignificant in comparison to transfer times
- is about the same as transfer times
- greatly exceeds transfer times
- is the time taken to search for data in a sorted list of database rows
- is measured in nanoseconds
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