>We are planning to stire 3 million pages, each page 1 record with menu datatype.
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>each page will have 2000 to 2500 chars.

I assume you're planning on storing this data in memo fields. Memo fields in DBFs are not the most reliable thing in the world and are sensitive to data corruption. Both to overcome the 2GB limit and for data integrity, I'd recommend going client-server.