diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer.go b/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d802860c815a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer.go
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package fileexporter // import "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/fileexporter"
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"io"
+
+	"go.uber.org/multierr"
+)
+
+// bufferedWriteCloser is intended to use more memory
+// in order to optimize writing to disk to help improve performance.
+type bufferedWriteCloser struct {
+	wrapped  io.Closer
+	buffered *bufio.Writer
+}
+
+var (
+	_ io.WriteCloser = (*bufferedWriteCloser)(nil)
+)
+
+func newBufferedWriteCloser(f io.WriteCloser) io.WriteCloser {
+	return &bufferedWriteCloser{
+		wrapped:  f,
+		buffered: bufio.NewWriter(f),
+	}
+}
+
+func (bwc *bufferedWriteCloser) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	return bwc.buffered.Write(p)
+}
+
+func (bwc *bufferedWriteCloser) Close() error {
+	return multierr.Combine(
+		bwc.buffered.Flush(),
+		bwc.wrapped.Close(),
+	)
+}
diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer_test.go b/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7e4fb342eaee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/fileexporter/buffered_writer_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package fileexporter
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"go.uber.org/multierr"
+)
+
+const (
+	msg = "it is a beautiful world"
+
+	SizeByte     = 1
+	SizeKiloByte = 1 << (10 * iota)
+	SizeMegaByte
+)
+
+type NopWriteCloser struct {
+	w io.Writer
+}
+
+func (NopWriteCloser) Close() error                    { return nil }
+func (wc *NopWriteCloser) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { return wc.w.Write(p) }
+
+func TestBufferedWrites(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	b := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
+	w := newBufferedWriteCloser(&NopWriteCloser{b})
+
+	_, err := w.Write([]byte(msg))
+	require.NoError(t, err, "Must not error when writing data")
+	assert.NoError(t, w.Close(), "Must not error when closing writer")
+
+	assert.Equal(t, msg, b.String(), "Must match the expected string")
+}
+
+var (
+	benchmarkErr error
+)
+
+func BenchmarkWriter(b *testing.B) {
+	tempfile := func(tb testing.TB) io.WriteCloser {
+		f, err := os.CreateTemp(tb.TempDir(), tb.Name())
+		require.NoError(tb, err, "Must not error when creating benchmark temp file")
+		tb.Cleanup(func() {
+			assert.NoError(tb, os.RemoveAll(path.Dir(f.Name())), "Must clean up files after being written")
+		})
+		return f
+	}
+
+	for _, payloadSize := range []int{
+		10 * SizeKiloByte,
+		100 * SizeKiloByte,
+		SizeMegaByte,
+		10 * SizeMegaByte,
+	} {
+		payload := make([]byte, payloadSize)
+		for i := 0; i < payloadSize; i++ {
+			payload[i] = 'a'
+		}
+		for name, w := range map[string]io.WriteCloser{
+			"discard":          &NopWriteCloser{io.Discard},
+			"buffered-discard": newBufferedWriteCloser(&NopWriteCloser{io.Discard}),
+			"raw-file":         tempfile(b),
+			"buffered-file":    newBufferedWriteCloser(tempfile(b)),
+		} {
+			w := w
+			b.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s_%d_bytes", name, payloadSize), func(b *testing.B) {
+				b.ReportAllocs()
+				b.ResetTimer()
+
+				var err error
+				for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+					_, err = w.Write(payload)
+				}
+				benchmarkErr = multierr.Combine(err, w.Close())
+			})
+		}
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/factory.go b/exporter/fileexporter/factory.go
index 8fca3db1171e..8f859de25850 100644
--- a/exporter/fileexporter/factory.go
+++ b/exporter/fileexporter/factory.go
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@ func newFileExporter(conf *Config, writer io.WriteCloser) *fileExporter {
 
 func buildFileWriter(cfg *Config) (io.WriteCloser, error) {
 	if cfg.Rotation == nil {
-		return os.OpenFile(cfg.Path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0600)
+		f, err := os.OpenFile(cfg.Path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0600)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return newBufferedWriteCloser(f), nil
 	}
 	return &lumberjack.Logger{
 		Filename:   cfg.Path,
diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/factory_test.go b/exporter/fileexporter/factory_test.go
index ca034187dc5f..84c6daa05b37 100644
--- a/exporter/fileexporter/factory_test.go
+++ b/exporter/fileexporter/factory_test.go
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ package fileexporter
 import (
 	"context"
 	"io"
-	"os"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ func TestBuildFileWriter(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 			validate: func(t *testing.T, closer io.WriteCloser) {
-				_, ok := closer.(*os.File)
+				_, ok := closer.(*bufferedWriteCloser)
 				assert.Equal(t, true, ok)
 			},
 		},
diff --git a/exporter/fileexporter/go.mod b/exporter/fileexporter/go.mod
index dc26a731213d..31c495176fd1 100644
--- a/exporter/fileexporter/go.mod
+++ b/exporter/fileexporter/go.mod
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap v0.69.2-0.20230112233839-f2a0133bf677
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v0.69.2-0.20230112233839-f2a0133bf677
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v1.0.0-rc3.0.20230112233839-f2a0133bf677
+	go.uber.org/multierr v1.9.0
 	gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2 v2.0.0
 )
 
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v0.34.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.11.2 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.10.0 // indirect
-	go.uber.org/multierr v1.9.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.24.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.5.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.4.0 // indirect