Here is my situation:
Work at a company in which we provide email archiving services. Pipes are set up between the client and my network. Every piece of email is archived through the pipe to our network and stored for 7 years. I've run into an issue working with a new client. Essentially, we'll be receiving an enormous amount of emails per day and we have to place them onto an NTFS disk. During testing, we're noticing that once the file count in the destination folder reaches 25,000 files, performance starts to degrade. We have to connect to the folder via FTP and pull the files from there, however, it's takes quite a while to establish the connection and then eventually the FTP connection times out....
Is there is maximum number of files that an NTFS folder can hold?
Thanks
Work at a company in which we provide email archiving services. Pipes are set up between the client and my network. Every piece of email is archived through the pipe to our network and stored for 7 years. I've run into an issue working with a new client. Essentially, we'll be receiving an enormous amount of emails per day and we have to place them onto an NTFS disk. During testing, we're noticing that once the file count in the destination folder reaches 25,000 files, performance starts to degrade. We have to connect to the folder via FTP and pull the files from there, however, it's takes quite a while to establish the connection and then eventually the FTP connection times out....
Is there is maximum number of files that an NTFS folder can hold?
Thanks
