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Shredded Storage is a new storage model implementation in SharePoint Server 2013 providing smoother I/O patterns, improved data transfer performance and a reduction of storage utilization when using historical versions with SharePoint.
What is Shredded storage?
Shredded Storage is a new storage model implementation in SharePoint Server 2013 used to provide smoother I/O patterns, improve data transfer performance, and reduce storage utilization when using historical versions with SharePoint.
How Shredded Storage Works Every document in SharePoint 2013 is now stored as multiple “shredded BLOBS” in the new “DocStreams” data table. As you probably know, documents stored in a library or as attachments are stored as Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) in the content database, by default.
What kind of storage is in SharePoint 2013?
1 Shredded storage is SharePoint 2013, running on SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012. 2 Shredded storage is different than Cobalt. 3 BLOBS such as Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Microsoft Word Documents and so on.
Where are the blobs stored in SharePoint 2013?
Shredded Storage in SharePoint 2013. As you probably know, documents stored in a library or as attachments are stored as Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) in the content database, by default. Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) is a set of APIs that let you move BLOBs out of the SQL Server content database to another storage mechanism.
Where are the shredded documents stored in SQL?
The shreds are stored in a new table called DocStreams in the SQL Content Database allocated for the site collection, and a separate table keeps a list of all the pointers that make the overall BLOB up for that version. The Cobalt aspects of Shredded storage work only with Office XML documents still.