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Mind Sharing Your Database Size?

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My organization's five year old CRM database (50 crm users) is over 45gb due to various attachments in notes. I'm trying to remove what I can there, but I'm trying to get a sense of scale of what other people's database sizes are. I know there a million variables in this like users, custom entities, how you use it, etc but I'm trying to demonstrate to individuals at my organization that medium to large size companies might have CRM databases in the hundreds of gigabytes, but a small organization doing so is extremely inefficient (should move attachments to Sharepoint). Just worried that performance will suffer as growth continues at such a large rate.

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    RE: Mind Sharing Your Database Size?

    Thanks for the posts so far you two. Anybody else have large database sizes they want to share?

    Scott, care to share what kinds of hardware and/or storage that organization was trying to run a 200gb+ db on? Physical or virtual? Local disk or SAN?

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    ScottDurow 19 on at
    RE: Mind Sharing Your Database Size?

    I've had CRM Databases with >200GB but performance does start to suffer. As you say it is usually down to attachments and notes. Sharepoint is definitely the right way to go and the storage there is much cheaper (in an office 365 deployment).

    You could also consider harvesting the attachments in old emails and archiving them using some of the tools that are available such as vwww.mscrm-addons.com/.../AttachmentExtractor

    Hope this helps

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    JohnAnonymous 5,241 on at
    RE: Mind Sharing Your Database Size?

    One of my customers, with about 50 crm users, has a database of 80 Gb in size. Most of the volume comes from tracking emails with large attachments. There we no real issue with a database of this size.

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