I’m trying to write huge amounts of data onto my SSD(solid state drive). And by huge amounts I mean 80GB.
I browsed the web for solutions, but the best I came up with was this:
#include <fstream>
const unsigned long long size = 64ULL*1024ULL*1024ULL;
unsigned long long a[size];
int main()
{
std::fstream myfile;
myfile = std::fstream("file.binary", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
//Here would be some error handling
for(int i = 0; i < 32; ++i){
//Some calculations to fill a[]
myfile.write((char*)&a,size*sizeof(unsigned long long));
}
myfile.close();
}
Compiled with Visual Studio 2010 and full optimizations and run under Windows7 this program maxes out around 20MB/s. What really bothers me is that Windows can copy files from an other SSD to this SSD at somewhere between 150MB/s and 200MB/s. So at least 7 times faster. That’s why I think I should be able to go faster.
Any ideas how I can speed up my writing?