1024 drives. In this scenario 16 becomes the erasure set size. This is decided based on the greatest common divisor (GCD) of acceptable erasure set sizes ranging from *4 to 16*.

- *If total drives has many common divisors the algorithm chooses the minimum amounts of erasure sets possible for a erasure set size of any N*.  In the example with 1024 drives - 4, 8, 16 are GCD factors. With 16 drives we get a total of 64 possible sets, with 8 drives we get a total of 128 possible sets, with 4...

// all the ellipses sizes.
func getDivisibleSize(totalSizes []uint64) (result uint64) {
	gcd := func(x, y uint64) uint64 {
		for y != 0 {
			x, y = y, x%y
		}
		return x
	}
	result = totalSizes[0]
	for i := 1; i < len(totalSizes); i++ {
		result = gcd(result, totalSizes[i])
	}
	return result
}

// isValidSetSize - checks whether given count is a valid set size for erasure coding.