Content Scalability Support Changes for SharePoint 2010

The BIG Announcement: Content Scalability Support Changes for SharePoint 2010

[...] and to build into Service Pack 1 important capabilities to support the scaling of SharePoint.

In short, the following supported limits were announced:

• Content databases of 200GB or less continue to be supported fully with out-of-box tools and functionality of SharePoint

• Content databases hosting document archives are supported with no limit to the size, other than that imposed by SQL Server itself

• Content databases hosting all other scenarios—loosely, "collaboration" scenarios—are supported up to 4TB

• A content database is supported up to 60 million items, including documents and list items. The supported limit for items in a single list or library (30 million) is unchanged.

• Size limits described above apply to the total size of data and content whether BLOBs are externalized using Remote BLOB Store (RBS) or not.

http://www.sharepointpromag.com/article/sharepoint-development/big-announcement-content-scalability-support-sharepoint-2010-139817