How much a site collection can store if i do not specify any Qoute when creating it

Question

I am working on an on-premise sharepoint enterprise server 2013. currently i have the following info:-

1. i have one web application + one content database.
2. I have 10 site collections.

now when i create my site collections i always specify not to have any Quota, as follow:-

so can anyone adivce if there are any limitation about the size of each of the site collections? or since i did not specify any Quota for the site collections,, so each site collection can have dynamic maximum size as long as the database server have space ?

Answer 1

All sizing information can be found on https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx#Limits and boundaries

A site collection has no specific size limitation, but a single content database is limited to 200GB in general usage scenarios, and 4TB absolute maximum.

It is however recommended to keep the site collection size under 100GB

A site collection can be as large as the content database size limit for the applicable usage scenario. For more information about the different content database size limits for specific usage scenarios, see the Content database limits table in this article. In general, we strongly recommend limiting the size of site collections to 100 GB for the following reasons:

• Certain site collection actions, such as site collection backup/restore or the Windows PowerShell cmdlet Move-SPSite, cause large SQL Server operations which can affect performance or fail if other site collections are active in the same database. For more information, see Move-SPSite.
• SharePoint site collection backup and restore is only supported for a maximum site collection size of 100 GB. For larger site collections, the complete content database must be backed up. If multiple site collections larger than 100 GB are contained in a single content database, backup and restore operations can take a long time and are at risk of failure.