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 Note that if you don't have a DNS certificate for the Bridgehead, you will need to allow an insecure connection. E.g. with curl, use the `-k` flag.
 
+The storage space on your hard drive will depend on the number of FHIR resources that you intend to generate. This will be the sum of the number of patients/subjects, the number of samples, the number of conditions/diseases and the number of observations. As a general rule of thumb, you can assume that each resource will consume about 2 kilobytes of disk space.
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+For more information on Blaze performance, please refer to [import performance](https://github.com/samply/blaze/blob/master/docs/performance/import.md).
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 #### ETL for BBMRI and GBA
 
 Normally, you will need to build your own ETL to feed the Bridgehead. However, there is one case where a short cut might be available: