Why I should have at least storage of 500 GB to install Alteryx?

[Hagar-Usama]

Hello,

Based on the requirments mentioned here, I have to have at least 500 GB storage to install Alterx. But why? my data doesn't even take too much?

Any specific reason for this?

Thanks!

[jbravman_]

Temp data / processing data space / always good to have extra storage than you need. 

Plus storage is cheap these days - you can easily upgrade a laptop top to a 1TB nvme m2 for $50... Desktop even cheaper. 

You shouldn't try to run Alteryx on a potato anyways - its a power hungry tool. my 256gb laptop was sluggish with alteryx - upgraded the RAM and storage... working much better. Newer CPU would have made it even faster. 

My desktop which has 4TB of space, 64gb RAM and ryzen 9 works so much better than the laptop. 

[apathetichell]

Alteryx processes in-memory - and your storage is really based on what you need. I think Alteryx would be fine on a 250gb machine - if the machine had 32gb of ram - but for a short hand listing the required storage as 500gb seems like an easier way to assure that ram requirements will be met. I'd rather run Alteryx on a machine with a 150gb hard drive and 32gb of ram (assuming newtork storage and good network speeds) - then on a machine with a 1tb hard drive and 8gb of ram.

[Hagar-Usama]

Hi @jbravman_ ,

I wonder what kind of data were you working on? I mean my data didn't actually exceed 50 MB, so having 250 GB of SSD storage and 24 GB of ram does make sense for my case. What do you think?

[Raj]

• Alteryx performance benefits from having a minimum of 500 GB storage.
• Additional storage is recommended for temporary and processing data.
• Alteryx is resource-intensive; insufficient storage can lead to sluggish performance.

it is suggested to have a 500 GB machine but you can install it in lower configurations as well

hope this help.

[Hagar-Usama]

Hi @apathetichell,

I see, I guess my 250 GB of SSD + 24 GB of memory seems enough to my little dataset (< 50 MB). I even don't notice a significant consumption to SSD, actually it didn't exceed 5% of the consumption. And memory - would take about 15 GB. For CPU, which is core i7, I see 80% of it was utilized.

Even though, I notice a freeze from nothing, like dragging a tool (task manager showing  no considerable consumption - if any -  of SSD, memory, or CPU)