This all seems to be driven by latency figures, predicated on the application accessing data in a random pattern. What if you are doing some data-intensive com

This all seems to be driven by latency figures, predicated on the application accessing data in a random pattern. What if you are doing some data-intensive computations where the data access pattern is fixed and computation parameters change? This particular application wouldn't care about latency, since you can linearize or otherwise arrange your data on disk so it is in the optimal position for your application. Instead, throughput would be the limiting factor. Has anybody done a similar analysis on this basis?