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Site collection size limit
I am totally new to sharepoint so please be patient with me.
A company that lost a contract for my company’s customer had created a system that contained around 2 or 3 TB of files. Unfortunate...
The 200 GB limit is just a recommendation for scenarios where there is heavy collaboration in your SP Site and also where the hardware that supports the farm is not a good hardware in terms of IOPS...SP can deal per database with much more than 200 GB...but again, it really depends on what you are going to do with content. Take a look at the SP 2013 SW boundaries and limits to understand what I say: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt493258(v=office.16).aspx