# Why does Unreal Engine take the large space in HDD **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started & Setup\ **Tags:** size, unreal-engine, Installation, UE4, question\ **Created:** [June 19, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972 "2020-06-19T13:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ariell9463](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Ariell9463](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Ariell9463)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/1 "2020-06-19T13:36:56Z")
I tried to change the product version, but each time, the size allocated to the HDD disk becomes too large to download until the end. During the download process, a “lack of capacity” pops up and i can’t download. How can i download UE4? My HDD file system is NTFS and available size 198 GB. ---
**Author:** ![Everynone](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/everynone/32/1135017_2.png) [@Everynone](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Everynone)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/2 "2020-06-19T14:43:02Z")
What do you mean? What is it these days? 30GB? That’s not a lot at all… You could skip content examples, that should shave off some of the bulk? You mean the 200GB? You see this during download? edit: if you go to the Properties of that drive, does it read FAT32 or NTFS? ---
**Author:** ![Ariell9463](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Ariell9463](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Ariell9463)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/3 "2020-06-20T02:55:31Z")
If UE4 is just 30GB, i can download because it’s not big. The disk allocated size of the folder where UE4 is downloaded is allocated larger than the actual file size. So, during the download process, a “lack of capacity” pops up because of disk allocated size and i can’t download it. plus : my drive reads NTFS ---
**Author:** ![Everynone](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/everynone/32/1135017_2.png) [@Everynone](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Everynone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/4 "2020-06-20T20:51:45Z")
Not sure what could cause this then for an NTFS drive 😑 ---
**Author:** ![Ariell9463](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Ariell9463](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Ariell9463)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/5 "2020-06-21T10:06:11Z")
ok T…T thanks you ---
**Author:** ![Ozzy070707](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Ozzy070707](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Ozzy070707)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/6 "2024-12-10T14:35:36Z")
Bytes Per Cluster size might be big. I had same issue. you can check by opening Command Prompt as Administrator and type: cmd fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo C: (which your unreal engine is loaded) ---
**Author:** ![Tactikast](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Tactikast](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Tactikast)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-unreal-engine-take-the-large-space-in-hdd/466972/7 "2024-12-17T07:08:50Z")
200 GO is NOT ENOUGH. I’m not kind to suggest high level setup but you need at least 1 TO and an SSD would be better. Unreal alone may take more than 60GO (It completely depend the version) just with a couple of free Stuff on the marketplace. You can reach the 200Go within a Week. So you will need more.