David

Yes, the DriveInfo class does require UNSAFE because of the permissions, I said that - my bad.

However, I can't agree with the rest of what you've said. I don't see that the constructor of a simple class would outweigh the cost of using an ArrayList instead of yield as well as the cost of boxing and unboxing all of the values stored in that ArrayList...

The other worry would be garbage collection. By putting everything in a static, the DriveInfo instances that are created are not naturally garbage collected because the reference to them is held by the static array. By doing away with that, everything is up for garbage collection as soon as the function terminates...

M