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It says 3ms for a "disk seek", not a disk IO. It's definitely misleading, but not totally wrong. An average disk seek time of 3 or 4ms is pretty common. The rot
by gamegoblin 8y ago
It says 3ms for a "disk seek", not a disk IO. It's definitely misleading, but not totally wrong. An average disk seek time of 3 or 4ms is pretty common. The rotational latency will be another few ms which is how we arrive at your number of 10ms, which is the total time of the IO.