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by starspangled 505 days ago
Why are super small drives a special case? It's still the same data to inode ratio.
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There's a lot of small files that come with your typical OS install, going into the first handfuls of gigabytes.

When you add on another terabyte, the distribution is totally different. The files are much bigger.

Right, so it's entirely about usage rather than filesystem size.
Different sizes have different uses.