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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