What's the upload limit recommendation?

Question

Hi,

Some of my users want to upload file up to 500 MB. I am a bit reluctant to increase the limit that much. I'm afraid it might impact performances...

I'd like to know the upload limit best practice. Is there any issue with uploading / downloading big files?

Should I configure RBS? Is it possible to use FTP instead of HTTP?

thanks for your lighting

Answer 1

You can configure the RBS if users are uploading large file size and there are more data growth, so in that case instead of saving the documents in content DB, you will be saving them on some different storage media and only references on content DB

Regarding the size limitations :

you have similar post answered here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointadminprevious/thread/4137300c-12d2-45e2-8542-bed214aa80ad/

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Answer 2

Thanks for your input Mohammad.

It's my mistake, I have asked too many question in my original post... But essentially, what I would like to know is the recommended upload size limit with standard configuration (meaning file stored in DB)?

Answer 3

Hi

you can see

http://corebix.com/top-six-questions-about-sharepoint-storage-limits-sharepoint-2007-vs-sharepoint-2010

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Miguel de Hortaleza

Answer 4

This should answer your question about sizing.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

Answer 5

SharePoint 2010 OOTB is configured to allow a 50MB upload limit.

I can only think of two instances where I've increased the file upload size limit and even then I've never increased it above 100MB. (Even this was because of a business requirement. In my case it was a couple of training videos.)

Unless this is a real business requirement - I'd leave it at 50MB

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Brian T. Shell

Answer 6

Hi,

as Mohammad said, RBS is a good soluton to large files that could be stored outside of SharePoint Content Database.

Regarding your question about the recommended upoad size it it 50 MB, but could be as large as 2000MB(limit in SQL) without using RBS.

Cheers,

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Answer 7

Hi hokus,

The maximum upload file size of SharePoint 2010 is 2047MB. (SharePoint Online is 250MB)

Best Regards.

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Kelly Chen
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