What is the typical seek time for a consumer 7200 RPM hard drive? MCQ with Answer and Explanation

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What is the typical seek time for a consumer 7200 RPM hard drive?

A. About 8-12 ms

B. About 0.1 ms

C. About 50 ms

D. Less than 1 ms

Answer: Option A

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Typical seek times for 7200 RPM HDDs are around 8 to 12 milliseconds. SSDs have seek times in microseconds (less than 0.1 ms).

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