Definition: Winchester Disk


Former code name for an early IBM hard disk model, sometimes still used to refer to the technology and design of most traditional hard drives.




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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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