We're currently using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH, but we would like our WriteFile to go even faster

Raymond ChenMarch 6, 2014Mar 6, 201403/6/14

A customer said that their program's I/O pattern is to open a file and then every so often write about 100KB of data into the file. They are currently using the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flags to open a file, and they wanted to know what else they could do to make their writes go even faster. Um, for one thing, you ...