There seems to be tons of arguments whether you should store your Media Library files in the database or as files on disk. I usually prefer storing them in the database, since it’s usually easier to manage the data this way. The performance impact is virtually none anyway, since I always use a CDN. But I agree with many of the cons arguments about this as well, so I’ll leave that decision to you.

If you choose database storage, one thing worth considering, is moving the Blobs table into another file store, so that you can put the binaries on a cheaper disk volume. That is if you for example run your primary database on SSD disks, it’d work just fine having the blobs on conventional hard disks.
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