Hi DreamVB,
please reconsider your data storage.
At some point, the storage will contain 1000 files with just 500 bytes each. The problem is, that the file system on HDD will take a whole sector for every small file. So, 1000 small files will take 4MB of HDD space on a partition with 4kB sectors instead of the expected 0,5MB.
Go for a database, or store all your files in one ZIP file etc.