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I have a program and as it’s done now, it has a data directory with something like 10-30K files in it and it’s starting to cause problems. Should I expect that to cause problems and my only solution to tweak my file structure or does that indicate other problems?
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Optimize NTFS hard disk performance in Windows servers
How to Optimize NTFS Performance
When Windows NT, 2000 or XP accesses a directory on an NTFS volume, it updates the LastAccess time stamp on each directory it detects. Therefore, if there are a large number of directories, this can affect performance.
This tweak disables this time stamp update