Computer Science for IGCSE & O level - Hardware (Section 17 - No. 17)
What is latency in the context of a hard disk drive?
The time it takes for the disk to spin.
The time it takes to move the read/write head to the correct track.
The time it takes for a sector to rotate under the read/write head.
The time it takes for the data to be written to disk
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Latency is the time it takes for a hard drive's read/write head to position itself on a specific data sector