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Requirements
Hardware and software requirements for Immich
Software
:::note
Immich requires the command docker compose - the similarly named docker-compose is deprecated and is no longer compatible with Immich.
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Hardware
- OS: Recommended Linux operating system (Ubuntu, Debian, etc).
- Windows is supported with Docker Desktop on Windows or WSL 2.
- macOS is supported with Docker Desktop on Mac.
- RAM: Minimum 4GB, recommended 6GB.
- CPU: Minimum 2 cores, recommended 4 cores.
- Storage: Recommended Unix-compatible filesystem (EXT4, ZFS, APFS, etc.) with support for user/group ownership and permissions.
- This can present an issue for Windows users. See here for more details and alternatives.
- The generation of thumbnails and transcoded video can increase the size of the photo library by 10-20% on average.
- Network shares are supported for the storage of image and video assets only.