Question on disk space utilization for capacity planning

[jeremyk]

All,

I was curious if anyone could shed any light on the question of disk space utilization when it comes to a typical transaction. We are working on SQL capacity planning and I would love to hear people's experiences. So how much space can we expect a typical transaction to take, any ideas? We can then multiply that by our volume level to get our estimated disk space.

Thanks in advance!

[Logan Rhodehamel]

This could vary depending on how your store is configured - particularly the types of products, shipping choices, use of product templates, etc. Perhaps the best way to determine is to use the demo copy to configure your store, then run a few test transactions that you think would be representative of your typical transaction. Then compare your database size before and after to determine the impact.