Seek acoustics reduction with minimized performance degradation

A disc drive data storage system comprising:

• a data storage disc providing a disc surface;
• a data head adapted to read data from the disc surface;
• an actuator which supports the data head above the disc surface such that movement of the actuator causes movement of the data head;
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• a controller adapted to control the actuator to seek the data head from an initial track to a target track storing data requested by a host, wherein the controller is adapted to estimate a magnitude of a performance benefit that would be gained by reading data that is rotationally adjacent to the requested data, and wherein the controller is further adapted to select a seek velocity profile for a read seek operation based on a radial distance between an initial track and a target track, a rotational distance between an initial head rotational position and a target rotational position, and the estimated magnitude of the performance benefit that would be gained by reading the rotationally adjacent data.