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 erasure coded deployment. In [distributed setup however node (affinity)...

| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 1      | 02            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 2 or 3 | 01            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 4      | 01            |
| Maximum number of drives per server                             | no-limit      |
| Read quorum                                                     | N/2           |

on 16 drive MinIO deployment. If you use eight data and eight parity drives, the file space usage will be approximately twice, i.e. 100 MiB
file will take 200 MiB space. But, if you use ten data and six parity drives, same 100 MiB file takes around 160 MiB. If you use 14 data and
two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <name>Carlos Sanchez</name>
      <id>carlos</id>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <name>Brett Porter</name>
      <id>brett</id>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <roles>

      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <name>Carlos Sanchez</name>
      <id>carlos</id>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <name>Brett Porter</name>
      <id>brett</id>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <roles>

      <organization>Zenplex</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
        <role>Release Manager</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>kaz</id>
      <name>Pete Kazmier</name>
      <email></email>
      <organization></organization>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>jtaylor</id>

      <organization>ASF</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>PMC Chair</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>-5</timezone>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>brett</id>
      <name>Brett Porter</name>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <organization>ASF</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>PMC Member</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>+10</timezone>
    </developer>

      <name>Joe Walnes</name>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>nat.pryce</id>
      <name>Nat Pryce</name>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>smgfreeman</id>
      <name>Steve Freeman</name>
      <roles>
        <role>Developer</role>
      </roles>

minio server --address :9003 /data/tenant3
```

![Example-1](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/screenshots/Example-1.jpg?raw=true)

### 1.2 Host Multiple Tenants on Multiple Drives (Erasure Code)

Use the following commands to host 3 tenants on multiple drives:

```sh
minio server --address :9001 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant1
minio server --address :9002 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant2
minio server --address :9003 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant3
```

  <developers>
    <developer>
      <id>morgand</id>
      <name>Morgan Delagrange</name>
      <email>morgand at apache dot org</email>
      <organization>Apache</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>Java Developer</role>
      </roles>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>rwaldhoff</id>
      <name>Rodney Waldhoff</name>
      <email>rwaldhoff at apache org</email>