- **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**.

				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)

pkg database/sql/driver, type ColumnConverter //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Conn interface, Begin //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Execer //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Queryer //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Stmt interface, Exec //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Stmt interface, Query //deprecated

### 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
```

			// 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}
		}
	}

			// 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):

| `minio_node_drive_total_inodes`      | Total inodes on a drive.                                 |
| `minio_node_drive_used_inodes`       | Total inodes used on a drive.                            |
| `minio_node_drive_reads_per_sec`     | Reads per second on a drive.                             |
| `minio_node_drive_reads_kb_per_sec`  | Kilobytes read per second on a drive.                    |

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

	if ssParity > 0 && rrsParity > 0 {
		if ssParity < rrsParity {
			return fmt.Errorf("Standard storage class parity drives %d should be greater than or equal to Reduced redundancy storage class parity drives %d", ssParity, rrsParity)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

// GetParityForSC - Returns the data and parity drive count based on storage class
// If storage class is set using the env vars MINIO_STORAGE_CLASS_RRS and

			return fmt.Errorf("%s drive is already being used in another erasure deployment. (Number of drives specified: %d but the number of drives found in the %s drive's format.json: %d)",
				disks[i], len(formats), humanize.Ordinal(i+1), len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets)*len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]))
		}
		if len(formatErasure.Erasure.Sets[0]) != setDriveCount {