GE> The mean time it takes to move the head of a {disk drive} from one {track} to another, averaGEd over the source and destination cylinders. The averaGE seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a multi-user environment where successive read/write request are larGEly uncorrelated. Ten ms is common for a hard disk and 200 ms for an eight-speed CD-ROM. (1997-07-22)