Disk Sizing

This topic is only applicable to on-premises installations.

The following table provides general disk space sizing guidelines for all environment sizes.

Files Stored	Typical Size	High-Usage Size	Typical Expected Annual Growth
Appearance files	1 to 20 MB	60 MB	Zero to little
Search indexes	100 MB to 1 GB	4 GB	500 MB
Document repository	500 MB to 10 GB	10 to 50 GB	Varies greatly
Database (data files only)	5 to 25 GB	150 GB	Less than 25 GB
Database (with full recovery logging)	40 to 100 GB	400 GB	Varies greatly

Actual disk usage requirements vary depending upon your specific needs. In particular, the amount of space required by the File Repository is dependent upon an individual usage scenario. For example, a customer who uses large media files (such as high resolution photos) requires more disk space than a customer whose data content is mostly simple text.

With larger and more numerous files, the limitations of a slow disk subsystem becomes more apparent and can create a performance bottleneck.

Archer can be negatively impacted if any file storage area runs out of space.