[sqeaky]

I routinely have VMs and images of VMs taking about many hundreds of GBs. I could get by with 256GB, but it wouldn't be comfortable. I would clean up old images and software on my schedule, then be dictated when because someone cheaped out on a drive.

If something like that delays me just a day, it could easily cost more than a single high speed 1TB SSD. That isn't so unlikely because disk full errors always manifest as something else, particularly when the VM is filling a disk and its internal disk still has has more space.