Limits and Boundaries in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Blog PostsMicrosoft has released various recommendations about how large content data bases should be in SharePoint in order to still allow for optimal performance . Gökhan’s article explores the complexities of these recommendations and how to best go about managing large amounts of data in SharePoint. This blog from Gökhan will serve as extensions to the topic that Gökhan has already explored in his piece.
I wrote this while searching for ways to optimize my SharePoint 2010 farm. At the time I didn’t have many content databases, but the few that I did have were quite large. I had heard about the recommended 200 GB limitation from Microsoft and decided to do some further research in order to make sure that I operate a fully supported SP2010 environment. I found an article on Microsoft TechNet that mentions recommended terms limits, thresholds and boundaries