On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking for an affordable desktop computer. The motive is to have
> one in my laboratory and recommend one similar to my customers. Main
> applications are my VFP9 application & Outlook. The number of records
> in tables are over 10,000 and there are document folders that hold
> several thousand files. The latter seems to be the sticky point with
> most systems. The OS seems to have a difficult time handling so many
> files in one folder. The application has no problem because they are
> all indexed.
>
> So what would be a good processor, ram, and hard drive specification for
> this type of computing. Also, my hardware guy builds my systems with
> ASUS and I have been very happy with them.
>
> Any recommendations will be appreciated.
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Subfolders! Ever hear of them?
Just because you can fill your trunk with bags so cement, doesn't mean
you should drive around like that all the time.
In doing document management for a printing outfit we found that the
1000 files in a folder was slowing down our app. For a printed
Document that we made the client may have submitted 2,3,+ documents to
us to combine. We were putting all docs in a single folder. We
rearranged the system to follow the path of the GUID for the actual
document's ID we created. CC44136F-E64A-47CB-B949-EF155932DE47
became:
Became
<root>
CC44136F
|- E64A
|-47CB
We found the limit on the SAN to be 2,560 docs in a single folder to
be the killing point for the OS.
--
Stephen Russell
Sr. Analyst
Ring Container Technology
Oakland TN
901.246-0159 cell
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