Advice Required on whether I should use RBS

Scenario:

Current Production SharePoint Farm (WSS3.0) has a Content DB size of 37,028 MB and contains 109796 documents. I calculate the average size of the documents to be 0.34 MB in size.

I want to install a new SharePoint Farm (SPF2010) and a previous decision was made to implement RBS using the Local FILESTREAM provider. However, upon reading through the TechNet documentation, I have my doubts whether the previous decision was correct.

Disk Space isn't an issue as the SQL Server is currently running at 40% disk capacity and has 1.86 TB Free. I have been advised that my pre-decessor made the decision to use RBS, was based on the expected performance gains, but from what I understand, these are only seen if the average size of your documents exceed 1 MB.

I am just after some 2nd opinions....

I have also seen the following article, which suggests that SQL FILESTREAM RBS shouldn't be used in a Production environment:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/a58d84e4-7bf9-4932-b7f6-19b0ebc75a47/should-filestream-rbs-provider-be-used-in-sharepoint-2010-production?forum=sharepointadminprevious

Kevin Evans