set-drive-count: 4 # Advanced option, must be used under guidance from MinIO team.
```

### Things to know

- Fields such as `version` and `pools` are mandatory, however all other fields are optional.
- Each pool expects a minimum of 2 nodes per pool, and unique non-repeating hosts for each argument.
- Each pool expects each host in this pool has the same number of drives specified as any other host.

		return config.DefaultHelpPostfix(DefaultKVS, key)
	}

	// Help provides help for config values
	Help = config.HelpKVS{
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         Bitrot,
			Description: `perform bitrot scan on drives when checking objects during scanner` + defaultHelpPostfix(Bitrot),
			Optional:    true,
			Type:        "on|off",
		},
		config.HelpKV{
			Key:         Sleep,

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			"Total number of offline drives in current MinIO server instance",
			nil, nil),
		prometheus.GaugeValue,
		float64(offlineDisks.Sum()),
	)

	// MinIO Total Disks per node
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
		prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(minioNamespace, "drives", "total"),
			"Total number of drives for current MinIO server instance",
			nil, nil),

}

// Decode reads from readers, reconstructs data if needed and writes the data to the writer.
// A set of preferred drives can be supplied. In that case they will be used and the data reconstructed.
func (e Erasure) Decode(ctx context.Context, writer io.Writer, readers []io.ReaderAt, offset, length, totalLength int64, prefer []bool) (written int64, derr error) {
	if offset < 0 || length < 0 {

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			storageLogOnceIf(GlobalContext, fmt.Errorf("Drive is not writable %s, %s", endpoint, hint), "log-fatal-errs")
		} else {
			logger.Fatal(config.ErrUnableToWriteInBackend(err).Hint("%s", hint), "Unable to initialize backend")
		}
	case errors.Is(err, errFaultyDisk):
		if !exit {
			storageLogOnceIf(GlobalContext, fmt.Errorf("Drive is faulty at %s, please replace the drive - drive will be offline", endpoint), "log-fatal-errs")

- **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**.

		readsPerSec:       "Reads per second on a drive",
		writesPerSec:      "Writes per second on a drive",
		readsKBPerSec:     "Kilobytes read per second on a drive",
		writesKBPerSec:    "Kilobytes written per second on a drive",
		readsAwait:        "Average time for read requests to be served on a drive",
		writesAwait:       "Average time for write requests to be served on a drive",

	if hr.Before.Drives[0].State != madmin.DriveStateMissing {
		t.Fatalf("Unexpected drive state: %v", hr.Before.Drives[0].State)
	}

	// Check the state of all other disks (should be ok)
	for i, h := range append(hr.Before.Drives[1:], hr.After.Drives...) {
		if h.State != madmin.DriveStateOk {
			t.Fatalf("Unexpected drive state (%d): %v", i+1, h.State)
		}
	}