Definition: Rotational Latency


The amount of delay in obtaining information from a disk due to the rotation of the disk. For a disk rotating at 5200 RPM, the average rotational latency is 5.8 milliseconds. See also Mechanical Latency.




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AT Bus Attachment (ATA-4)

The interface defined by IBM for the original AT disk controller.

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