two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

Below is a list of data/parity drives and corresponding _approximate_ storage space usage on a 16 drive MinIO deployment. The field _storage
usage ratio_ is simply the drive space used by the file after erasure-encoding, divided by actual file size.

| Total Drives (N) | Data Drives (D) | Parity Drives (P) | Storage Usage Ratio |

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)...

				if deploymentID != "" {
					newFormat.ID = deploymentID
				}
				drive := pool.Endpoints[i*setDriveCount+j]
				fmtBytes, err := json.Marshal(newFormat)
				if err != nil {
					//nolint:gocritic
					log.Fatalf("failed to marshal format.json for %s: %v", drive.String(), err)
				}
				fmtJSON := filepath.Join(drive.Host, drive.Path, minioMetaBucket, "format.json")
				embedFileInZip(fmtZipW, fmtJSON, fmtBytes, 0o600)

| `minio_system_drive_api_latency_micros`        | Average last minute latency in µs for drive API storage operations. <br><br>Type: gauge | `drive`, `api`, `set_index`, `drive_index`, `pool_index`, `server` |

			// Bucket or prefix/directory not found
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
		default:
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
		}
	}

### 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
```

If one or more drives are offline at the start of a PutObject or NewMultipartUpload operation the object will have additional data protection bits added automatically to provide additional safety for these objects.

### High availability

A stand-alone MinIO server would go down if the server hosting the drives goes offline. In contrast, a distributed MinIO setup with _m_ servers and _n_ drives will have your data safe as long as _m/2_ servers or _m*n_/2 or more drives are online.

			// Fresh setup, wait for first server to be up.
			logger.Info("Waiting for the first server to format the drives (elapsed %s)\n", getElapsedTime())
		case errors.Is(err, errFirstDiskWait):
			// Fresh setup, wait for other servers to come up.
			logger.Info("Waiting for all other servers to be online to format the drives (elapses %s)\n", getElapsedTime())
		case errors.Is(err, errErasureReadQuorum):

          "legendFormat": "Free [{{drive}}]",
          "refId": "C"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Drive Usage",
      "type": "timeseries"
    },
    {
      "datasource": {
        "type": "prometheus",
        "uid": "${DS_PROMETHEUS}"
      },
      "description": "",
      "fieldConfig": {
        "defaults": {
          "color": {
            "mode": "palette-classic"
          },

  // DriverName defines the name of the dynamic resource driver that is
  // used for allocation of a ResourceClaim that uses this class.
  //
  // Resource drivers have a unique name in forward domain order
  // (acme.example.com).
  optional string driverName = 2;

  // ParametersRef references an arbitrary separate object that may hold
  // parameters that will be used by the driver when allocating a