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How much disk space do I need to store content?

My analysis, which is currently still in progress, shows the following values for English only, for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. I'm still working on the analysis for Windows 2000.

Note also that these are total available updates. The numbers will be significantly smaller if your baseline is at the latest service pack and you are only approving post-service pack content.

Windows Server 2003 - English Only
    Without Express Updates
        Critical Updates - 20.85mb
        Security Updates - 254.44mb
        Service Packs - 357.27mb

    With Express Updates
        Critical Updates - 20.85mb
        Security Updates - 2022.70mb
        Service Packs - 1320.53mb

Windows XP - English Only
    Without Express Updates
        Critical Updates - 58.32mb
        Security Updates - 198.52mb
        Service Packs - 152.08mb***

    With Express Updates
        Critical Updates - 238.43mb
        Security Updates - 1310.90mb
        Service Packs - 152.08mb

So for Windows XP and Windows 2003, not including SP2 for XP, using express
installations will require approx 5GB of disk space.

*** This does not include SP2; for some reason, the initial sync for XP Service Packs did not include SP2 in the download queue. Add another 270mb to support the SP2 package. Also, I believe the Express package for SP2 will be significant in size, but I've not yet obtained that real data either.