It seems one of the most common problems people face is overflowing the RAM buffer because they are trying to write 500 channels to a magnetic drive. This problem is increasing because channel counts are going up. The disk requirements are kinda buried in hardware requirements page:
https://open-ephys.github.io/gui-docs/User-Manual/Hardware-requirements.html
I would promote this to its own page with ⚠ Warning admonitions on it.