A method and apparatus is provided for measuring and optimizing the orientation of data access of an electronic storage device according to data access characteristics. Monitoring storage access activity in an area of storage space is performed to gather data pertaining to one or more storage access...http://www.google.com/patents/US6681309?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6681309 - Method and apparatus for measuring and optimizing spatial segmentation of electronic storage workloads
