Unreal Engine 5 Disk Storage?

[EnderSwitcher]

How much storage does Unreal Engine actually take up? It says I need 60GB of storage. I am short on 17GBs. Is the 60GB just required for installation? How can I get more space in my SSD?

[SandeepKumarP (Sandeep Pilakhnawal)]

I’ve answered this in another post. Try searching the forum before posting a duplicate question. This helps everyone to get to a solution faster and have discussions in a single place.

I’m posting the link to my answer below. I hope it helps.

SSD vs HDD?

As @RecourseDesign mentioned, Using SSD is advised as they are much faster than HDDs. If possible keep your engine and project both on SSD. HDDs are going to be painful when your project size increases (I’m not sure on what scale is your project being made.) If you have very limited space you can do the following: Make sure to uninstall components that you do not use from the Epic Launcher. (Like you can uninstall Andoird and iOS if you are not targeting that platforms). Move the ‘.vs’ …

[anonymous_user_f7e8552f]

I Have replaced my HDD with SSD. It seems working fine.

[anonymous_user_f7e8552f]

I found this guide to format SSD to fix the disk issues.