With SharePoint, restoring old data involves multiple databases and entire SharePoint farms that may be no longer supported. Backups and Disaster Recovery – With traditional file shares, they can easily be replicated to multiple sites, backed up and archived for compliance going back many years.File names on local shares allow special characters that are not allowed in SharePoint (#%&) that must all be renamed before migrating them. All permissions must be manually recreated on the SharePoint sites along with equivalent folder structures. Migration – Migrating to SharePoint from legacy file shares takes careful planning.Even if you did store this much data, or files this large, accessing them over the Internet may be unworkable (see Reason #1). SharePoint Online has a 1TB limit on each library, a 5000 item display limit, a 15GB file size limit and a maximum 100,000 file sync limit. Storage Capacities – Even the smallest companies have easily terabytes of data.While there are 3rd party tools to that can map SharePoint drive letters, they are slow, require additional administration and they do not support Two Factor Authentication. The interface looks nothing like Windows File Explorer. With SharePoint, files are stored in libraries that are accessed using a web-based interface or from within apps only. Simplicity – Users are trained to easily grab their files from a mapped drive.In the office, networks are typically 1GB – a whopping 125 MB/s!! For large files access, nothing beats a local area network connection. For example, a fast 100 Mbp/s home Internet connection only equates to 12.2 MB/S. A local network connection is at least 10 times faster than any Internet connection. While Internet speeds are measured in Megabits, local network speeds are measured in Megabytes. Speed – Nothing can beat the speed of local network file server access.While SharePoint is great for collaborating on documents with teams inside or outside of the company, can it completely replace an on-premise file server for larger firms and be used as a file share alternative? Here’s the list of the top 10 reasons we compiled on why SharePoint is not a file file server:
Often, IT professionals are asked to evaluate moving their company file servers to SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online is included with most subscriptions for free. Many companies are considering migrating Windows File Shares to Office 365.
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