Performance tuning in a storage system that includes one or more storage devices, including: storing, by a primary controller of the storage system, data corresponding to one or more computer processes into one or more of the one or more storage devices, determining, by a secondary controller that is configured similarly to the primary controller, one or more utilization patterns of the data, and initiating, in dependence upon the one or more utilization patterns of the data, a modification to a manner in which the one or more computer processes access the data stored in the one or more storage devices.