posted 19 years ago
In my previous company, we were storing a large number of images. The Architects always wanted to store the images as files instead of BLOBs. The reason cited was a) performance and b) it's easier to share images between apps if they are stored as images(2 differrent databases can point to the same image if the image is stored as a file on a shared drive or HTTP location). I did'nt do any performance tests myself, so I cant vouch for it. But logically , if your server is going to host large-sized files to a lot of clients, then it's better to put those files on a differrent server. You can configure the File Server based on the size of the files, number of requests, yadda, yadda, yadda