Yelp Interview Question

What is the average disk access time?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Oct 10, 2011

It is the sum of seek time+rotational delay+Transfer time

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Anonymous

May 18, 2011

Not sure how detailed it should be, but this has the right information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_time Since no specifics are given I would assume that the answer would be general, as explained there.