A Disk Drive with Multiple Tracks: Seek Time

Let's continue our discussion on working on a disk-drive and look at the functioning of a drive with multiple tracks.

So far our disk just had a single track, which is not too realistic; modern disks of course have many millions. Let’s thus look at an ever-so-slightly more realistic disk surface, this one with three tracks. Look at the figure given below.

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