title: SQL Server 2008 FileStream vs Normal Files
body: <p>I am creating an application like youtube to store videos and I need some advice.</p>
  
  <p>Should I use SQL Server FileStream to store the video files or should I store them somewhere on the hard disk and record the path as a varchar(MAX) inside SQL Server?</p>
  
  <p>Which is recommended and why?</p>
  
  <p>Do you recommend something else apart from both these? Please feel free to tell me but please tell me why too. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you so much.</p>