Which of the following is major part of time taken when accessing data on the disk?
(A) Settle time
(B) Rotational latency
(C) Seek time
(D) Waiting time
Answer: (C)
Explanation: Seek time is time taken by the head to travel to the track of the disk where the data to be accessed is stored.
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