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Migrating from network drive to SharePoint
We currently work with a 5TB network drive with 2,400,000 files, adding 15,000 files per month. The drive is organized with one folder per year, then one subfolder per month, etc. I was looking i...
stenci To get around the 300000 file limit it's an issue where you have to throw hardware at it. Balance the load across multiple machines using multiple clients.
SharePoint may not be the best place for this. As I said it sounds like this process just using SharePoint as a dumping ground.
I would say that if you're required to use SharePoint - this is incurring a lot of technical debt because of the need to use OneDrive client to sync contents as if they were in a local drive. Re-engineer the process to work for the place where you are storing the files there are plenty of different ways to automate the file upload process. I would also be mindful of how many files that are created that are like versioned by adding something to the end of the file because that could be de-duped by using versioning in SharePoint.
Whatever the outcome may be document what is going on because IMO - this isn't a process or development that I would want to come into having to figure out what is going on with it.
I'm starting to think that SharePoint is not the right tool for us.
Both the 300,000 file limit and being impossible to force check out are both show stopper for us.
stenci To get around the 300000 file limit it's an issue where you have to throw hardware at it. Balance the load across multiple machines using multiple clients.
SharePoint may not be the best place for this. As I said it sounds like this process just using SharePoint as a dumping ground.
I would say that if you're required to use SharePoint - this is incurring a lot of technical debt because of the need to use OneDrive client to sync contents as if they were in a local drive. Re-engineer the process to work for the place where you are storing the files there are plenty of different ways to automate the file upload process. I would also be mindful of how many files that are created that are like versioned by adding something to the end of the file because that could be de-duped by using versioning in SharePoint.
Whatever the outcome may be document what is going on because IMO - this isn't a process or development that I would want to come into having to figure out what is going on with it.
I agree with a lot of responses here. SharePoint isn't a direct replacement for a file share. If you were going to use SharePoint as your document management system for sharing and collaborating directly on documents, I could see it being a potential option if it had a solid information architecture.
However, it does seem like just trying to get rid of a file share and use SharePoint instead. I would recommend against this, and it's not the most cost effective storage.
