The SAS Enterprise Miner
server installation uses approximately 12 GB of hard disk space. The
SAS Enterprise Miner client installation uses approximately 515 MB
of hard disk space. The SAS Enterprise Miner Workstation installation
uses approximately 12 GB of hard disk space.
Disk space requirements
for data should be analyzed for both the client and server machines.
In addition to the
amount of disk space needed to install SAS Enterprise Miner, you will
need adequate disk space to store the following:
-
the data to be mined. You must
provide space for the source data, whether it is SAS data sets or
RDBMS tables.
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the work data that is generated
during SAS Enterprise Miner processing on the server. A general rule
of thumb is for each project to allow for 4 to 7 times the amount
of the data file being analyzed.
The SAS Enterprise Miner
Sample,
Data Partition, and
Memory-Based Reasoning nodes create
work files that are as large as the input data files during execution.
If your data analyses use these nodes regularly, plan your disk space
allocation accordingly.
You should create a
detailed assessment of how you expect SAS to interact with your I/O
subsystems. You can use this assessment to optimize your I/O throughput.
Information about SAS I/O requirements is available at
http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/sgf07/sgf2007-iosubsystem.pdf and
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/FAQforStorageConfiguration.pdf.