In doing some research I ran across an interesting whitepaper that I had never seen before. It provides some great guidelines on how to maintain a happy and healthy Sharepoint site. Although, what I had seen from customers and also, what I had been told was further bore out about the upper limits of SPS.

To maintain optimum server performance and ease navigation of the document libraries and folder structures, use the following guidelines as the upper limits when organizing your files:

To maintain optimum server performance and ease navigation of the document libraries and folder structures, use the following guidelines as the upper limits when organizing your files:

• 1,000 files in a folder
• 1,000 folders per document library
• 1,000 document libraries per site
• 50 megabytes (MB) per file

When a site is maintained within these parameters, typical throughput is as follows:

• 10 saves per second per content database
• 300 reads per second per content database

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