The free space that we have on the disk drives of our computer is something increasingly valuable. Despite advances in hard drives, the number of applications we use and the size of them is also growing over time. Hence, this free space is something that we must take into consideration and manage correctly. Now we are going to talk about how much one of the most used programs, such as the Kodi media player , consumes in this regard.
Here we are referring to an open source project formerly known as XBMC that has been gaining popularity around the world over the years. Right now it could be considered one of the benchmarks in the multimedia sector when it comes to reproducing all kinds of content of this type. And it is that with Kodi on the PC we will have the opportunity to see our photos, access streaming television channels, play our videos, listen to music, etc.
In addition, to all this is added a very characteristic user interface of the program that looks like an independent operating system to the one that we have it installed. At the same time, this is a program that not only focuses on the reproduction of this content, but also offers us functions for managing all of it. To this we must add the possibility of installing complements or add-ons in order to increase its functionality or improve its appearance.
But of course, on certain occasions and if we take into account the factors when choosing a program with these characteristics, it is important to know the disk space it occupies. This is because, as we have mentioned before, free space on disk drives is becoming more and more valuable.
Disk space consumed by Kodi conventional and UWP
Therefore, no matter how good a certain program is, sometimes we are not interested in having it installed for this reason. Precisely for all this, below we are going to talk about the consumption of the hard drive that makes the popular and loved by many, multimedia center. To give you an idea, we will tell you that this is a program that a priori seems to consume much more space than it actually does.
So that we can get a rough idea of all this that we are telling you, first of all, we will talk about the conventional version that we downloaded from the official Kodi website . Once we have downloaded the corresponding executable and installed the application on our PC, the hard disk consumption will be 140 or 150 megabytes . Of course, as we install new add-ons this consumption will increase, but not too much. Therefore, it could be considered as a space well used in most teams.
Likewise, if we make a backup copy of all the program’s configuration to be able to use it in the future, it will be around 40 megabytes . This way we can save it on any storage device as a backup copy of our Kodi profile with its corresponding personalized configuration.
With everything and with it, that is not the only version of the program with which we can do, for example, in Windows. If we opt for the UWP version that we downloaded from the Microsoft Store , here the consumption is somewhat higher. It must be said that from the outset this version of Kodi occupies around 290 megabytes , around double that of the conventional version. Despite all this, in most cases this is an application that is still worth having installed.
