Disk: What is Disk I/O?

• Act of retrieving and/or updating information stored on a disk drive or in a disk environment.

Overhead - Negotiating the controller.

Seek Time - find data

Latency - wait for data spin.

Xfr (transfer of data) - bring data over.

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