The Golden Rule Of Optimisation

Measure Measure Measure

• Are seek times a problem in your application?
• Find out by using tools that monitor file operations at the operating system level: www.sysinternals.com/linux/utilities/filemon.shtml
  www.sysinternals.com/linux/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
• You'll need the tool to verify that everything is working later on as well...