• For us it actually/nearly crashed a server. Original DB size was 34.45 GB but snapshot grew more than 78 GB where the Disk size allocated was 80 GB.

    From there on my rule for creating a snapshot is that you should have at least 3 - 4 times the disk space compared to original database if the transaction level is high on original database. And that you if you have rollback statements.

    SQL DBA.