Your 4TB SSD probably has the wrong cluster size for large files
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Defaulting a multi-terabyte SSD to a single system partition with suboptimal cluster size is a quiet tax on performance and recoverability. Infra and IT teams should standardize partitioning and allocation policies for large drives instead of letting installer defaults dictate storage behavior.
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