10GB Image archive

[Paolo]

My next solution will have a database that will contain up to 20000 record.

Each record have a container field to store a 300-700kb jpeg.

The file will be about 10GB.

Can Filemaker Server handle it?

Thank you!

[Anatoli]

2GB are maximum for filesize IMHO on all current FM platforms.

Store just references to the images.

[Paolo]

Does references to images work with FM Server too (with the images stored on a directory on the server)?

Does references involve any performance loss or limitation?

Thank you very much!

[Anatoli]

RE: Does references to images work with FM Server too (with the images stored on a directory on the server)?

Sure. All users on the network must have the same path to the image directory.

RE: Does references involve any performance loss or limitation?

Not that I know. Actually the performance is just the performance of disk subsystem and network. That is always slow or fast -- depends on the conditions.