Personally, I'd put them on the file system, because then backup software
can perform incremental backups. In the database, that becomes more of a
difficulty. One suggestion, don't use a file name from a hash to store the
image, just use the serial id, and break them up by hundreds or thousands,
iow image 1123 might be in images/000/000001/000001123.
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