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What's the common term used when discussing the speed data transfers from a hard drive.
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Seek time, average latency, and data transfer rate?

Seek time: Time required for the head to seek to a particular track.

Average latency: Time required for the head to seek to a particular track and the correct sector pass under it

Transfer rate: actual data throughput in reads and writes.
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hard-drive throughput

I seem to have a better workout dodging your stupidity than attempting to grasp the weight of your intelligence.
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