# MinIO Erasure Code Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

MinIO protects data against hardware failures and silent data corruption using erasure code and checksums. With the highest level of redundancy, you may lose up to half (N/2) of the total drives and still be able to recover the data.

## What is Erasure Code?

See also <<release-highlights>> and <<es-release-notes>>.
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=== Breaking changes

The following changes in {es} ${majorDotMinor} might affect your applications

# MinIO Deployment Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

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## Deploy your own server { #deploy-your-own-server }