https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/1-TB-for-What/m-p/304314#M2284 <P>We are evaluating Alteryx server and see that it recommends 1 TB of storage. That seems a bit high especially because we will be storing all of our data out to our SQL Server instance.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What am I missing? Why does it need a whole terabyte of storage?</P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:59:37 GMT Jake_Jake_Jake 2018-09-20T17:59:37Z https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/1-TB-for-What/m-p/304314#M2284 <P>We are evaluating Alteryx server and see that it recommends 1 TB of storage. That seems a bit high especially because we will be storing all of our data out to our SQL Server instance.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What am I missing? Why does it need a whole terabyte of storage?</P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:59:37 GMT https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/1-TB-for-What/m-p/304314#M2284 Jake_Jake_Jake 2018-09-20T17:59:37Z https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/1-TB-for-What/m-p/304490#M2286 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.alteryx.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/44111">@Jake_Jake_Jake</a>,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>The Alteryx engine will dynamically allocate memory and even overflow to disk space as virtual memory as necessary.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN><A href="https://help.alteryx.com/current/TempFiles.htm" target="_blank">https://help.alteryx.com/current/TempFiles.htm</A></SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN><A href="https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Sizing-workflow-memory-usage/td-p/145082" target="_blank">https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Sizing-workflow-memory-usage/td-p/145082</A></SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Hope it help.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Best Regards,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Samuel</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:29:56 GMT https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/1-TB-for-What/m-p/304490#M2286 Samuel_To 2018-09-21T02:29:56Z