How to read a file using multiple threads in Java when a high throughput(3GB/s) file system is available

Question

I understand that for a normal Spindle Drive system, reading files using multiple threads is inefficient.

This is a different case, I have a high-throughput

Answer 1

You should first try the java 7 Files.readAllLines:

List lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(path), encoding);

Using a multi threaded approach is probably not a good option as it will force the filesystem to perform random reads (which is never a good thing on a file system)