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Average seek/access time of a flash memory drive

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How do I know the "average access/seek time" of a flash memory drive? Is there any website that I can download the datasheet of a flash memory? I surfed around and all I got is read/write time. Is the read time = average seek time?
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I can't find the datasheet for "DiskOnKey", and it doesn't say anything about average seek time though.
well there is no such thing basically; the term average access = the time it needs in average to access the data on a HDD, the seek time is the time the arm with the head takes as an average to position correctly on the data. Flash drives are Memory units, they don't have heads to be positioned.

This clear enough?
For a flash memory, we should say average access time instead of average seek time? I guess.
So, average access time = time it takes to read the data?
I need to download a Datasheet of a flash drive to look into it. Have searched several website, and most of the information they provided is about read/write time. So, I guess that's pretty much about it?
Yes, they give the data throughput rate, which is more or less the transfer speed, and that is the only figures they have: read speed and write speed
Do they have a datasheet?
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Thank you, I got it.
Nice , i give you 3 answers, and finally you give the points to someone who repeats what i say !