Spinning up a new VM from scratch itself will take around 10gb read and write.
If you are building containers or loading up a lot of data, can easily reach that.
I'm surprised your figures are low because I always see tens of gbs of write and read normally without doing much.
In generak, it can reach it easily on a dev machine, but it seems like the norm. And my linux experience is at 1/5th or 1/10th the amount of data read/write tha comparable tasks.
Looking at this thread, it seems this is the way with macOS.
Spinning up a new VM from scratch itself will take around 10gb read and write.
If you are building containers or loading up a lot of data, can easily reach that.
I'm surprised your figures are low because I always see tens of gbs of write and read normally without doing much.