Another good read about increasing disk IO and reducing latency can be found at the Mechanical Symphony blog about the single writer principle: http://mechanica

Another good read about increasing disk IO and reducing latency can be found at the Mechanical Symphony blog about the single writer principle: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/09/single-writer-principle.html http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/09/single-write... We ran into issues where lots of threads attempting a disk write were causing latency problems. We were able to get around this by having a single dedicated thread to disk IO.