<p>For most sites, there probably wouldn't be a difference, but if you're purely looking at performance and your site has a large number of assets, then 20 sources with 5,000 images and folders in each is going to scale better than a single source with 100,000 images and folders in them.</p>

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2018-11-12T22:46:56.263Z
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<p>I'm creating a new Craft 3 site and migrating a lot of content from a wordpress setup. I'm wondering if it is better to separate assets into more sources - thus reducing the number of files per directory. An example would be a different asset source per section. Or is it fine to lump them all into one large directory? Is there any performance advantage to the former?</p>

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Multiple Asset source question
# Multiple Asset source question

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-09)

I'm creating a new Craft 3 site and migrating a lot of content from a wordpress setup. I'm wondering if it is better to separate assets into more sources - thus reducing the number of files per directory. An example would be a different asset source per section. Or is it fine to lump them all into one large directory? Is there any performance advantage to the former?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-12. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

For most sites, there probably wouldn't be a difference, but if you're purely looking at performance and your site has a large number of assets, then 20 sources with 5,000 images and folders in each is going to scale better than a single source with 100,000 images and folders in them.


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