Advantage of saved versus linked documents

[rbahra]

I'm trialling UR and am impressed with it so far and can see how it would be very good when used for archiving my many files of information. However, I don't like the idea of storing many hundreds of documents (pdfs, html, .rtf etc) in UR and risk losing them all if the database developed a corruption (is this possible?)

Therefore, rather than store documents inside UR, I would keep them in directories and link to them in UR. Thus, my doucments are always safe. Are there any disadvantages in this approach? In other words, is there any major functionality that you can do with stored documents that you can't with linked documents? Searching seems to be fine as simple tests in UR showed that I could see search in linked or stored documents, which is great!