> Lastly, you can find here the game’s official PC system requirements. Bethesda recommends using an SSD, and the game requires around 135GB of free hard-disk space.
Note the "135GB" of SDD and / or HDD space required.
At this point, if you want / need that much space for your game, you honestly better start offering a service for us to mail our drives in to get the game installed.
Maybe I'm just getting too old, or too stubborn, what do ya'll think?