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.

			// 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}
		}
	}

// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package config

// UI errors
var (
	ErrInvalidXLValue = newErrFn(
		"Invalid drive path",
		"Please provide a fresh drive for single drive MinIO setup",
		"MinIO only supports fresh drive paths",
	)

	ErrInvalidBrowserValue = newErrFn(
		"Invalid console value",
		"Please check the passed value",

			"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),

    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.

### Homebrew (recommended)

Run the following command to install the latest stable MinIO package using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/). Replace ``/data`` with the path to the drive or directory in which you want MinIO to store data.

```sh

          "expr": "minio_node_drive_used_bytes{job=~\"$scrape_jobs\",server=\"$server\"}",
          "interval": "",
          "legendFormat": "Used [{{drive}}]",
          "refId": "B"
        },
        {
          "datasource": {
            "type": "prometheus",
            "uid": "${DS_PROMETHEUS}"
          },
          "exemplar": true,

			// 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 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 errErasureReadQuorum:

	globalServiceFreezeCnt int32
	globalServiceFreezeMu  sync.Mutex // Updates.

	// List of local drives to this node, this is only set during server startup,
	// and is only mutated by HealFormat. Hold globalLocalDrivesMu to access.
	globalLocalDrives   []StorageAPI
	globalLocalDrivesMu sync.RWMutex

	globalDriveMonitoring = env.Get("_MINIO_DRIVE_ACTIVE_MONITORING", config.EnableOn) == config.EnableOn

	// Is MINIO_CI_CD set?

		Subsystem: "health",
		Name:      "erasure_set_online_drives",
		Help:      "Get the count of the online drives in this erasure set",
		Type:      gaugeMetric,
	}
}

func getClusterErasureSetHealingDrivesMD() MetricDescription {
	return MetricDescription{
		Namespace: clusterMetricNamespace,
		Subsystem: "health",
		Name:      "erasure_set_healing_drives",