Windows' slow performance when dealing with millions of tiny files per hour (e.g. <50 KB) and inability to offer fine-grain IO throttling for processes was why we moved from Windows to Linux in a previous career. Linux handles this scenario in its stride, Windows chokes (and, no, "background" IO priority on Windows isn't a solution).
Simply moving from files to a DBMS wasn't an option, since the whole point of this edge system was to allow third parties to FTP/SFTP/FTPS/etc in and out, to put/get files. We would have had to re-implement multiple transfer technologies/protocols to have a file-less database system (which didn't make cost-effective sense).
Simply moving from files to a DBMS wasn't an option, since the whole point of this edge system was to allow third parties to FTP/SFTP/FTPS/etc in and out, to put/get files. We would have had to re-implement multiple transfer technologies/protocols to have a file-less database system (which didn't make cost-effective sense).