Installation of Komplete 13 and disk space

You should go through the content and see if there are things you don't "need" that you can avoid installing. There are a lot of Pianos, Session and Scarbee series instruments, and some Orchestral stuff that have pretty substantial disk requirements.

Honestly, just skipping Abbey Road 50s/60s/70s/Vintage drummer is likely to save you about 30GBs of space. Emotive Strings is like 20GBs on its own. Etc.

Expansions also cost over 1 GB each, on average.

If you're not going to use some of that stuff, then don't waste space that can be put to better use on it.

Komplete 13 has a ~220GB Content Directory if you install everything in the bundle, so it will error out if you click "Install All."

Native Access 1 downloads everything ahead of time, concurrent with installation. This is less of an issue in Native Access 2, which downloads and installs in a serial fashion (next thing doesn't start downloading until current thing is finished installing - and it deletes the downloaded file before starting the next download).

With v1, it will download everything ahead of time even while things are installing in the foreground, which can create a situation where the downloads have used up all of the available space on the drive you are trying to install to.

But with 168GB remaining, you may not even have enough to install the full bundle on that drive. You really don't want to fill up your system SSD. I recommend upgrading to 1TB SSD (if possible) if you're going to be getting Komplete or Komplete Ultimate and want to install everything internal to the laptop (without having to dongle an external SSD). For Komplete 13 Ultimate C.E., you want a 2TB internal SSD, as it has an ~820GB Content Directory.

Komplete 13 Ultimate has ~550GB Content Directory.

I'm quite sure Native Access 1 will download multiple things ahead of time, not just the next item on the list. It doesn't download in parallel, but some things take much longer to install than others (and it starts the next download upon starting an installer - not after the install completes like NA2). There are a lot of small, discrete files in these libraries and expansion packs, so while the package is being installed it is already downloading the next file in queue. If that file is smaller (Expansion Pack ISO), then it will start the next item in the queue.

If you're installing the content to an external SSD, then NA has to copy everything from the download disk to the Content Drive, which slows things down and allows it to pool more content ahead of time.

It can accumulate lots of data on the download drive, as a result.

In the time it takes NA1 to install the "Previews", it can download an additional 4-5 Expansion Packs in the background on my internet connection.

I know this is true, because I have literally watched the download directory while it was installing Komplete 13 on a machine.

For this reason, I've always queued downloads in Native Access 1 in order of ASCENDING DOWNLOAD SIZE.

That way, by the time it gets to the larger downloads, it has little opportunity to pool inordinate amounts of data in that folder; which can be problematic on space-constrained systems.

And, for the record, this is fairly common with many companies' downloaders (Steinberg, IKM, UVI, Arturia, etc.).