James
Thu Nov 06 14:10:56 CST 2003
Note that my previous post delt with single file sizes. If all of your
single files in the projects are under 75mb, then sharepoint should be a
great solution for you and can easily handle several hundred gigabytes of
files.
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James Edelen
Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center
Microsoft Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"James Edelen [MVP]" <jj4@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> If you can get them in, it will work. Usually, though, there are problems
> getting files in which are over 75MB. Also SharePoint does not like
> embedded files. If the project files you have embed other file types,
> sharepoint's crawling engine does not like them, so you should break them
> into seperate files as well.
>
> SQL can support larger file sizes, but SharePoint tends to have timeouts
> which cause the large upload problem.
>
> --
> James Edelen
> Microsoft MVP - SharePoint Portal Server
> Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Media Center
> Microsoft Associate Expert
> Expert Zone -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> "David" <david.parenteau@compuware.com> wrote in message
> news:4740AB7B-79F4-4934-8BBD-AAAFCFE4A43F@microsoft.com...
> > Here, we see the opportunity to transfert our file server into a
> sharePoint server. We have more than 100 different projects and some
> projects have more than 100MB of files. The biggest has 1962 MB.
> >
> > We expect that each project could be represented as a site on the
portal.
> RAM is 1GB, CPU is Pentium 4 with 2.4GHz
> > We want to know if SharePoint Portal Server 2003 used with a SQL Server
> Enterprise would be hard enough to host all these files.
> >
> > Does someone could give me an opinion based on experience or a link were
I
> could get infos on scalability and performance?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
>
>