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  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:56 PMac2326 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi,

    Does anyone know or have anyreference links to information regarding file sizes uploaded to SharePoint.  For example if you have a 250K word document does that bloat to say 295K?  or does it compress the files somehow?  If someone could give me an answer or point me to some links that would be great I am trying to do some capascity planning.

    Many thanks,

    AC
     

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  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:02 PMMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    It "bloats" to much more because there is the overhead of converting to a Blob. 

    Very very roughly you should maybe be thinking double - certainly you ca 18% is too small.


    There are good papers / blog articles on capacity planning. Look for Joel Oleson blog on this from the time he was at Microsoft. They would be better than just thinking about document sizes.
    FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com
    Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.
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  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:02 PMMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    It "bloats" to much more because there is the overhead of converting to a Blob. 

    Very very roughly you should maybe be thinking double - certainly you ca 18% is too small.


    There are good papers / blog articles on capacity planning. Look for Joel Oleson blog on this from the time he was at Microsoft. They would be better than just thinking about document sizes.
    FAQ sites: (SP 2010) http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com; (v3) http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com and (WSS 2.0) http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com
    Complete Book Lists (incl. foreign language) on each site.
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  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:49 PMac2326 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    So 18% you say?  So if I upload a word document for example and it is 1MB in size I should estimate that this would add 1.18MB (appox) to the total database size? 

    I can see know where out there that has any information on this?

    Many thanks,