// If we have offline disks upgrade the number of erasure codes for this object.
		parityOrig := parityDrives

		var offlineDrives int
		for _, disk := range onlineDisks {
			if disk == nil || !disk.IsOnline() {
				parityDrives++
				offlineDrives++
				continue
			}
		}

		if offlineDrives >= (len(onlineDisks)+1)/2 {
			// if offline drives are more than 50% of the drives