Re: Committing Byte Array to Disk

Use BinaryWriter instead.

bw.write(MB)



"guy" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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suggest you move the StreamWriter.Flush outside the loop

"jwgoerlich@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

What is the fastest way of writing a Byte array to disk? I have a 512
MB array in memory. I am writing to a 10K RPM drive, and have ample CPU
and RAM. I need to write as much data as possible, as fast as possible.


Currently, I am using the StreamWriter. I am not getting anywhere near
the thru put I would expect. My code is something like:

For i = 0 To (MB.Length - 1)
StreamWriter.Write(MB(i))
StreamWriter.Flush()
Next

Any recommendations on squeezing more performance?

J Wolfgang Goerlich




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