All three components – seek time, rotational delay, and transfer time – are necessary to fully access a disk block. Ignoring any of these would lead to an incomplete calculation of the total access time.
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Asked in Programmer Exam 2024 · Topic: Components of a Computer System (Memory Hierarchy: Primary Memory (RAM, ROM, Cache), Secondary Storage Devices (HDD, SSD, Optical))
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Answer: B. Seek time + rotational delay + transfer time
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