diff --git a/contentcoder.go b/contentcoder.go
index 68638d80..388e5d00 100644
--- a/contentcoder.go
+++ b/contentcoder.go
@@ -110,9 +110,7 @@ func (c *chunkedContentCoder) Close() error {
 }
 
 func (c *chunkedContentCoder) incrementBytesWritten(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&c.bytesWritten, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&c.bytesWritten, val)
 }
 
 func (c *chunkedContentCoder) getBytesWritten() uint64 {
diff --git a/docvalues.go b/docvalues.go
index afbe5394..bd3574da 100644
--- a/docvalues.go
+++ b/docvalues.go
@@ -147,9 +147,7 @@ func (di *docValueReader) ResetBytesRead(val uint64) {
 }
 
 func (di *docValueReader) incrementBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&di.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&di.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (di *docValueReader) BytesWritten() uint64 {
diff --git a/intDecoder.go b/intDecoder.go
index 630d2104..c8751f0a 100644
--- a/intDecoder.go
+++ b/intDecoder.go
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ func newChunkedIntDecoder(buf []byte, offset uint64, rv *chunkedIntDecoder) *chu
 		rv.chunkOffsets[i], read = binary.Uvarint(buf[offset+n : offset+n+binary.MaxVarintLen64])
 		n += uint64(read)
 	}
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&rv.bytesRead, n)
-	}
+
+	atomic.AddUint64(&rv.bytesRead, n)
+
 	rv.dataStartOffset = offset + n
 	return rv
 }
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ func (d *chunkedIntDecoder) loadChunk(chunk int) error {
 	start += s
 	end += e
 	d.curChunkBytes = d.data[start:end]
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&d.bytesRead, uint64(len(d.curChunkBytes)))
-	}
+
+	atomic.AddUint64(&d.bytesRead, uint64(len(d.curChunkBytes)))
+
 	if d.r == nil {
 		d.r = newMemUvarintReader(d.curChunkBytes)
 	} else {
diff --git a/intcoder.go b/intcoder.go
index 52dbb1ef..5b716b3f 100644
--- a/intcoder.go
+++ b/intcoder.go
@@ -78,9 +78,7 @@ func (c *chunkedIntCoder) SetChunkSize(chunkSize uint64, maxDocNum uint64) {
 }
 
 func (c *chunkedIntCoder) incrementBytesWritten(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&c.bytesWritten, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&c.bytesWritten, val)
 }
 
 func (c *chunkedIntCoder) getBytesWritten() uint64 {
diff --git a/new.go b/new.go
index d6b0ac43..edbf45d1 100644
--- a/new.go
+++ b/new.go
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ var NewSegmentBufferNumResultsBump int = 100
 var NewSegmentBufferNumResultsFactor float64 = 1.0
 var NewSegmentBufferAvgBytesPerDocFactor float64 = 1.0
 
-// This flag controls the disk stats collection from the segment files
-// during indexing and querying
-var CollectDiskStats bool
-
 // ValidateDocFields can be set by applications to perform additional checks
 // on fields in a document being added to a new segment, by default it does
 // nothing.
@@ -498,9 +494,7 @@ func (s *interim) getBytesWritten() uint64 {
 }
 
 func (s *interim) incrementBytesWritten(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
 }
 
 func (s *interim) writeStoredFields() (
@@ -617,9 +611,7 @@ func (s *interim) writeStoredFields() (
 }
 
 func (s *interim) setBytesWritten(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.StoreUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
-	}
+	atomic.StoreUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
 }
 
 func (s *interim) writeDicts() (fdvIndexOffset uint64, dictOffsets []uint64, err error) {
diff --git a/posting.go b/posting.go
index cc80d39b..dcae817f 100644
--- a/posting.go
+++ b/posting.go
@@ -263,9 +263,7 @@ func (p *PostingsList) BytesRead() uint64 {
 }
 
 func (p *PostingsList) incrementBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&p.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&p.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (p *PostingsList) BytesWritten() uint64 {
@@ -378,9 +376,7 @@ func (i *PostingsIterator) BytesRead() uint64 {
 }
 
 func (i *PostingsIterator) incrementBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&i.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&i.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (i *PostingsIterator) BytesWritten() uint64 {
diff --git a/segment.go b/segment.go
index 68981d71..f62918c8 100644
--- a/segment.go
+++ b/segment.go
@@ -228,9 +228,7 @@ func (s *Segment) loadConfig() error {
 // read from the on-disk segment as part of the current
 // query.
 func (s *Segment) ResetBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.StoreUint64(&s.SegmentBase.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.StoreUint64(&s.SegmentBase.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (s *Segment) BytesRead() uint64 {
@@ -243,9 +241,7 @@ func (s *Segment) BytesWritten() uint64 {
 }
 
 func (s *Segment) incrementBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (s *SegmentBase) BytesWritten() uint64 {
@@ -253,9 +249,7 @@ func (s *SegmentBase) BytesWritten() uint64 {
 }
 
 func (s *SegmentBase) setBytesWritten(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesWritten, val)
 }
 
 func (s *SegmentBase) BytesRead() uint64 {
@@ -265,9 +259,7 @@ func (s *SegmentBase) BytesRead() uint64 {
 func (s *SegmentBase) ResetBytesRead(val uint64) {}
 
 func (s *SegmentBase) incrementBytesRead(val uint64) {
-	if CollectDiskStats {
-		atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesRead, val)
-	}
+	atomic.AddUint64(&s.bytesRead, val)
 }
 
 func (s *SegmentBase) loadFields() error {