It depends on what the meaning of manipulate is.

Manipulate: create by issuing commands to other programs (i.e. DB), copy/move/delete (including across networks), etc. without opening/reading.

• Typical size: 4GB
• maximum size: 8GB
• OS used: Solaris 10, CentOS 5
• Filesystem used: UFS, NFS, Ext3
• description: database/application/custom_compiled_code backups
• format: binary

Manipulate: read/write

• Typical size: 20MB
• maximum size: 100MB
• OS used: Solaris 10
• Filesystem used: UFS
• description: Proviso data
• format: variable-length text records w/ default seperator '|_|', 1/20/100 chars