Bruce,
Sure, but that assumes you have parallel I/O channels; I assume right now it is I/O limited.
Even a simple cp will be speeded up between 50% and 150% (depending on your storage) by doing several files in parallel. However, I'm not sure that's what you should be spending your time on.
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