How to obtain good concurrent read performance from disk

Question

I\'d like to ask a question then follow it up with my own answer, but also see what answers other people have.

We have two large files which we\'d like to read from two

Answer 1

Do you use IOCompletionPorts under Windows? Windows via C++ has an in-depth chapter on this subject and as luck would have it, it is also available on MSDN.