Defining content containers

When planning for content containers, it is important to have a general idea of how much content the system will eventually need to hold. In this sample we will plan for containers to hold invoices, sales orders, and purchase orders.

For the sample system, we expect to store the following documents for up to seven years. The following table shows projections for the number of documents by type per week, per year, as well as the maximum number expected to be stored before retention policies archive the older documents:

Document type	Number per week	Number per year	Expected limit
Invoices	200	10,400	72,800
Sales orders	300	15,600	109,200
Purchase orders	150	7,800	54,600

As we see, the numbers start to grow quickly. If each document averaged 150K in PDF format, the total storage within a single site collection would be difficult to support. Most organizations have close to 15 enterprise document types that they manage, making this planning process...