Question about PM inbox limit ;)

[N9ne]

Right now I have it set at 70 but many users wish for it to be around 150 - 200, even I do! anyway, I was wondering, how much space in general would it take to have about 5000 PMs stored on my forum in total if they're simply short messages?

I really want to allow 200 each

[Wayne Luke]

In the SitePoint Forums Database we currently have over 30,000 private messages. I have the limit set to 150 for members and higher for staff (yes it requires a hack). Anyway, it takes up a little under 21 megabytes of space.

[George L]

my vB forum

91,108 private messages occupy 73.2 MB

0.82kb per private message not much at all

[N9ne]

Ah, sounds fine, I was just worried it might be taking up a lot of space, but well in that case, I just put it up to 200