disk-access

Simultaneous Or Sequential writes-- Does it matter in terms of speed?

Simultaneous Or Sequential write operation-- Does it matter in terms of speed? With multicore processor, does it make sense to parallelize all the file write operation using multi thread, just to get a boost of speed? Of course, all those write operations are independent. ...

Minimizing disk accesses when getting attributes of files in a directory

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a way to get attributes of a large number of files in a directory, but without adding the cost of an additional disk access for each file. For example, if I get the Name attribute of FileInfo objects in a collection, then there is no additional disk access. However if I get the LastWriteTimeUtc, th...