divides the drives you provide into erasure-coding sets of *2 to 16* drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

Minio uses the largest possible EC set size which divides into the number of drives given. For example, *18 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 9 drives*, and *24 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 12 drives*.  This is true for scenarios when running MinIO as a standalone...

   * range [0, k) and ignore the remaining elements.
   */
  private final @Nullable T[] buffer;
  private int bufferSize;

  /**
   * The largest of the lowest k elements we've seen so far relative to this comparator. If
   * bufferSize ≥ k, then we can ignore any elements greater than this value.
   */
  private @Nullable T threshold;

- **MinIO creates erasure-coding sets of _2_ to _16_ drives per set.  The number of drives you provide in total must be a multiple of one of those numbers.**
- **MinIO chooses the largest EC set size which divides into the total number of drives or total number of nodes given - making sure to keep the uniform distribution i.e each node participates equal number of drives per set**.

	// prefers setCounts to be sorted for optimal behavior.
	if divisibleSize < setCounts[len(setCounts)-1] {
		return divisibleSize
	}

	// Figure out largest value of total_drives_in_erasure_set which results
	// in least number of total_drives/total_drives_erasure_set ratio.
	prevD := divisibleSize / setCounts[0]
	for _, cnt := range setCounts {
		if divisibleSize%cnt == 0 {

    public boolean contains(@Nullable Object target) {
      return indexOf(target) >= 0;
    }

    @Override
    public int indexOf(@Nullable Object target) {
      return target instanceof Long ? parent.indexOf((Long) target) : -1;
    }

    @Override
    public int lastIndexOf(@Nullable Object target) {
      return target instanceof Long ? parent.lastIndexOf((Long) target) : -1;
    }

    @Override

    @Override
    public boolean contains(@Nullable Object target) {
      return indexOf(target) >= 0;
    }

    @Override
    public int indexOf(@Nullable Object target) {
      return target instanceof Integer ? parent.indexOf((Integer) target) : -1;
    }

    @Override
    public int lastIndexOf(@Nullable Object target) {
      return target instanceof Integer ? parent.lastIndexOf((Integer) target) : -1;
    }

   * @since 20.0
   */
  public static BigInteger ceilingPowerOfTwo(BigInteger x) {
    return BigInteger.ZERO.setBit(log2(x, CEILING));
  }

  /**
   * Returns the largest power of two less than or equal to {@code x}. This is equivalent to {@code
   * BigInteger.valueOf(2).pow(log2(x, FLOOR))}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code x <= 0}
   * @since 20.0
   */

      throw new ArithmeticException("ceilingPowerOfTwo(" + x + ") is not representable as a long");
    }
    return 1L << -Long.numberOfLeadingZeros(x - 1);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the largest power of two less than or equal to {@code x}. This is equivalent to {@code
   * checkedPow(2, log2(x, FLOOR))}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code x <= 0}
   * @since 20.0
   */

   * i, i + target.length)} contains exactly the same elements as {@code target}.
   *
   * @param array the array to search for the sequence {@code target}
   * @param target the array to search for as a sub-sequence of {@code array}
   */
  public static int indexOf(short[] array, short[] target) {
    checkNotNull(array, "array");
    checkNotNull(target, "target");
    if (target.length == 0) {

   * i, i + target.length)} contains exactly the same elements as {@code target}.
   *
   * @param array the array to search for the sequence {@code target}
   * @param target the array to search for as a sub-sequence of {@code array}
   */
  public static int indexOf(short[] array, short[] target) {
    checkNotNull(array, "array");
    checkNotNull(target, "target");
    if (target.length == 0) {