# Hardware requirements

Before installing your Talend product, make sure the machines you are using meet the following hardware requirements recommended by Talend.

Memory and disk usage heavily depends on the size and nature of your Talend projects. However, in summary, if your Jobs include many transformation components, you should consider upgrading the total amount of memory allocated to your servers, based on the following recommendations.

### In this section

* [Memory usage](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/installation-guide-linux/7.3/memory-usage)
* [Disk space requirements](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/installation-guide-linux/7.3/disk-space-requirements)
* [ulimit settings on Unix systems](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/installation-guide-linux/7.3/ulimit-settings-on-unix-systems)