Upload sets of images to one single folder or seperate folders for each set?

Question

I would be having 150-200 products on my website which could grow in the future and I have around 30 - 40 images for each product so I wanted to ask should I have separate folders for storing images of each product or save all the images in one single folder?
Thanks

Answer 1

I'd use a separate folder for each product - it seems much neater that way and won't end up with too many files in the directory.

It would also make it easier to iterate over all a product's images.

If each product has a unique ID number then you should probably use that for the folder name, unless you want to go the full SEO route and have something like /images/my-product-name/...jpg

Answer 2

That depends on the file system - with FAT32 a directory can contain up to 65,536 entries (i.e. files), so you'll probably be fine.

It also depends on whether you only ever want programmatic access, or whether you want some person to have to ever look at a directory with 65K files.