Openshift

What is Random Seek Time?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

The time it takes for a disk to reach the place where the data is located and read a single block/sector.

Bones question: What is the random seek time in SSD and Magnetic Disk? Answer: Magnetic is about 10ms and SSD is somewhere between 0.08 and 0.16ms