An object is sharded within an erasure set. Erasure set size is automatically calculated based on the number of drives. MinIO supports unlimited number of drives but each erasure set can be upto 16 drives and a minimum of 2 drives.

- We limited the number of drives to 16 for erasure set because, erasure code shards more than 16 can become chatty and do not have any performance advantages. Additionally since 16 drive erasure set gives you tolerance of 8 drives per object by default which...