rotational latency
The time for the start of the required sector on a disk to appear underneath the
read/write head. The worst case is where it has just passed the head when the
request is received. For a disk drive with N heads per surface, rotating at R
revolutions per minute, the average rotational latency will be
L = 30/NR seconds.
Rotational latency is one component of access time.
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