DBA From The Cold (5/6/2015)
Yep, the data in the BLOBs is data retained "just in case". It has nothing to do with the day to day application operations.I'm definitely leaning towards creating a dedicated database with filestream enabled.
Didn't realize they weren't necessarily needed day to day. My apologies. I'd probably lean this way, though I'd use Filetable so people can just use Explorer to move the files if they need them.