Google Colab Storage

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Ferhat picture Ferhat · Oct 27, 2018 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

Does anybody know the storage limits for running Google Colab? I seem to run out of space after uploading 22gb zip file, and then trying to unzip it, suggesting <~40gb storage being available. At least this is my experience running the TPU instance.

Answer

marsipan picture marsipan · Apr 28, 2019

Presently, the amount of local storage in colab depends on the chosen hardware accelerator runtime type:

# Hardware accelerator none
!df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay          49G   22G   26G  46% /

# Hardware accelerator GPU
!df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay         359G   23G  318G   7% /

# Hardware accelerator TPU
!df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay          49G   22G   26G  46% /

Even if you don't need a GPU, swithcing to that runtime type will provide you with an extra 310Gb of storage space.

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