# Ignition Client disk requirements

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-client-disk-requirements/12611>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-client-disk-requirements/12611 "2017-01-26T21:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mwaynesmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mwaynesmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mwaynesmith)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-client-disk-requirements/12611/1 "2017-01-26T21:46:58Z")

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We are specifying industrial grade HMI pc’s to run the client and want to know what the client needs in terms of storage. Have not seen any documentation that refers to disk space usage during execution. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-client-disk-requirements/12611/2 "2017-01-27T03:09:25Z")

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Ignition clients don’t explicitly use any storage, but do cache a variety of files from the gateway. On my dev machine, I’ve accumulated ~5GB in the ~/.ignition folder, and a few MB in ~/.java. So, I wouldn’t expect all that much in normal use.

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**Author:** ![mwaynesmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mwaynesmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mwaynesmith)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-client-disk-requirements/12611/3 "2017-01-27T14:17:55Z")

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Thanks, Just what we needed to know.