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SharePoint system sizing
Omni_Knight You are mistaken. The 25TB limit is per site collection.
SharePoint limits - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn
So, if you were to go with F1 or F3 based on that table. The limit is 50 exabytes (25 TB x 2,000,000 site collections). With the number of users that you have, you would get 14 TB OOTB and then you can choose to purchase additional storage if you need to - Add more SharePoint storage to your subscription | Microsoft Learn.
Just make sure you have all your requirements ahead of time and know the features that come with each M365 plan such as security, compliance, etc.,
Consider hiring a consultant to implement best practices (implement a proper information architecture, security, governance, adoption, training, etc.,). Being able to store information online is one story, maintaining and keeping the environment secured is another.
Let me know 🙂 I know a few people in the industry.
Omni_Knight You are mistaken. The 25TB limit is per site collection.
SharePoint limits - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn
So, if you were to go with F1 or F3 based on that table. The limit is 50 exabytes (25 TB x 2,000,000 site collections). With the number of users that you have, you would get 14 TB OOTB and then you can choose to purchase additional storage if you need to - Add more SharePoint storage to your subscription | Microsoft Learn.
Just make sure you have all your requirements ahead of time and know the features that come with each M365 plan such as security, compliance, etc.,
Consider hiring a consultant to implement best practices (implement a proper information architecture, security, governance, adoption, training, etc.,). Being able to store information online is one story, maintaining and keeping the environment secured is another.
Let me know 🙂 I know a few people in the industry.
- By your point I assume that with the size of 1300 users, Do I will have 14TB of storage each Site Collection and I can create like 2 million Site Collections and no other cost charged?
- You let it scale automatically and you don't usually change that.
But to note, you DON'T want all your files in one site collections. You gonna need mulitple one and one for each context, So go through it all and create sites accordingly.
So for Example you create a site collection for IT Department and place all the documents there.- Correct, I just wanted to show the max limit on my DEV environment.
Omni_Knight Correct. My mistake on that calculation - 14TB. Your tenant will have a max of 14TB for SharePoint. When you create a site collection, there is an entry to configure the max storage you want to have per site collection. The default site collection setting for max storage is 25TB, but you cannot exceed your tenant max storage. In your case, 14TB OOTB.
To give you some context. Here is the SharePoint Admin Center in my DEV tenant with 25 licenses:
I just checked and I guess the default site collection size which is Auto.
I changed it to Manual and here is the default:
