[gnosygnu]

You can try the low-space import. There are instructions in XOWA at home/wiki/Help:Options/Import. It takes longer (8-10 hours) but only needs 35 - 40 GB. (which is still a lot).

In the end, you're still going to need about 25 GB for English Wikipedia. If you want something smaller, you can try one of the other wikis (for example, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, etc.) Each of these are generally about 5 GB.

Hope this helps.

[voltagex_]

It's more the bandwidth required - even on a 10 megabit (optimistic) connection, a 10GB download takes quite a while.

[gnosygnu]

Fair enough. It takes about 2 - 3 hours to download for me (standard US residential connection). I sometimes let it run overnight.