Disk IO Performance Limitations based on numbers of folders/files

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Published on 2010-05-14T16:56:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 20:54 UTC
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I have an application where users are allowed to upload images to the server. Our Web Server is a windows 2008 server and we have a site (images.mysite.com) that points to a shared drive on a unix box.

The code used to do the uploading is C# 3.5.

The system currently supports a workflow where after a threshold is met a new subfolder can be generated. The question we have is how many files and/or subfolders can you have in a single folder before there is a degredation in performance - in serving the images up through IIS 7 and reading/writing through code?

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