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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This may seem like a clumsy question but I'm trying to understand the grads io pattern to/from storage and whether or not it's tunable (request size, block size, etc.) to make use of high performance RAID devices.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Make sense?</FONT>
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